Comments on: My Predictions on the Health Care Case

By: Lavelle Gilomen

Lavelle Gilomen — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 20:46:33 +0000

Whispering Misty…

So sorry you are going to pass up the workshop!…

By: Eric Llanes

Eric Llanes — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 15:29:47 +0000

Woman of Alien…

Best get the job done you have got performed, this website is de facto interesting with amazing details. Time is God’s way of retaining every little thing from happening at once….

By: look

look — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 01:04:05 +0000

hier…

http://dev.moms4mom.com/questions/12134/whats-the-easiest-way-to-make-a-nice-photo-slideshow-with-a-song-on-a-dvd…

By: ladydoc

ladydoc — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 05:32:23 +0000

Not going to waste my time trying to point out what has been obvious on its face to many.

By: runner12

runner12 — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 05:30:35 +0000

That was a good one! Very quick-witted.

By: ladydoc

ladydoc — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 05:30:19 +0000

…heretofore pretending to be conservative.

By: marktx

marktx — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 23:30:35 +0000

Obviously, per this case, the dissenting opinion carries no weight. But Kennedy’s opinion does show that there was no consensus on the issue of the mandate being a tax. In a decision a large as ObamaCare, it would have been far better for the country had the court ruled with a bigger majority, say 7-2, or possibly unanimous.

By: acat

acat — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 22:42:11 +0000

Only the reasoning of those who are in the majority actually matters for the current decision.

The rest are semi-predictive of future decisions, and sometimes (as with the minority opinion in the AZ SB 1070 issue) they can provide some advice on future cases.

In this case, the best I can see in Kennedy’s dissent is that he might vote to limit the scope of the power to tax.

Mew

By: marktx

marktx — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 22:39:26 +0000

n/t

By: acat

acat — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 22:16:22 +0000

They’re just words.

They’re somewhat useful in trying to figure out how the 9 will decide in the future, but they don’t matter a whit regarding the current case.

Mew

By: runner12

runner12 — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:54:26 +0000

That means he is a Leftist trolling the site, pretending to be conservative. Look at his sig line and more importantly the user name. It is best not to respond to the mobies and trolls.

By: marktx

marktx — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:45:44 +0000

In a very detailed dissenting opinion, justice Kennedy explains why the individual mandate is NOT a tax. Kennedy goes into detail which exposes the faulty legal reasoning of the majority opinion written by Roberts.

I wonder how Rehnquist would have voted if he were still on the bench ?

By: acat

acat — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:29:25 +0000

What do you think the majority opinions got wrong *specifically*?

Mew

By: ladydoc

ladydoc — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:23:36 +0000

It’s not “liberal” if the Supreme Court does its actual job of correctly interpreting the Constitution.

By: noncon

noncon — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:29:23 +0000

Wow.

However, let’s remember what was promised regarding anti-judicial activism. Romney wrote in the WSJ not that long ago “?Beware of activist judges. The Legislature is our lawmaking body, and it is the Legislature?s job to pass laws.?

Having the Supreme Court strike down Obamacare would have been nice, but it would have been the liberal way of doing things. Much better to have the legislature do the job of the legislature.

By: ffc99

ffc99 — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:58:17 +0000

why Dan (a guy who knows a hell of lot more about the SC than you clearly do) wasn’t particularly confident that the ACA would be struck down?

By: sulmak

sulmak — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 07:27:09 +0000

even if it is unanimous.

By: Dave_A

Dave_A — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 04:51:32 +0000

A mandate-only-struck ruling not only screws with the insurance market (bad for all of us), but it deprives Obama of the ability to campaign on ‘how the meanies in the Court struck down free health-care for college kids’ and so on…

If he loses the whole law, his plan is to bash the Court on the campaign trail & try to build support for ‘ObamaCare MKII – Single Payer Edition’ (because Single Payer doesn’t require you to buy anything, in the eyes of the Administration, it would still be constitutional if OCare fails)….

Unfortunately, the damage of a partial-strikedown is far worse than the marginal benefit of some fun we could have at his expense, WRT him being deprived of this ‘opportunity’…

So we’re left rooting for a total strike-down (which most of us, myself included, were anyway)….

By: conservativemusician

conservativemusician — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 04:09:11 +0000

And if we’re lucky, maybe the entire thing gets thrown out. That would be the correct decision and it’s pretty ridiculous that the Dems flimsy arguments can even remotely be considered cogent thought. However, I am glad at least that Boehner has stated emphatically that the House will move forward to repeal the parts of ObamaCare that don’t get struck down by the SC (if they don’t chuck the whole thing). They have a plan of action either way this thing goes down, so I am cautiously optimistic and have been largely discounting AP’s “tea leaves” posts on HotAir. What a downer that guy is!

By: ladydoc

ladydoc — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 22:57:21 +0000

…in his blog post, “The Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act Will Not Help The Poor” at http://ArtCoday.com/issues/blog.html.

Dr. Coday is one of the rare few doctors in general, private practice who, even today, sees almost exclusively Medicaid & Medicare patients so he has the real-world experience informing his baseline sensible, small government, traditional American conservative views. He explains with clarity and calm why the expansion of Medicaid eligibilty to folks who are less poor will inevitably worsen the lot of the very poor for whom Medicaid was designed.

Check out his post and other healthcare-related planks on his campaign website above! He’ll be a great primary care physician to have in the Senate as the healthcare system is TRULY overhauled next year.