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Liberty University - dat's Pat Robertson's school, he'll be talkin' `bout it onna 700 Club...
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Obamacare: Supreme Court orders new look at university’s lawsuit
November 26, 2012 - The Supreme Court on Monday ordered an appeals court to consider the underlying merits of Liberty University’s lawsuit – including whether Obamacare violates religious freedom.
The US Supreme Court on Monday set the stage for further litigation over the constitutionality of President Obama’s health-care reform law. In a somewhat unusual maneuver, the high court agreed to send one of several cases challenging the Affordable Care Act (ACA) back to a federal appeals court to consider the underlying merits of the lawsuit – including whether the measure violates religious freedom. In late June, the Supreme Court voted 5 to 4 to uphold the ACA as a valid exercise of Congress’s taxing authority. The ruling forced the dismissal of a handful of other cases challenging the reform law. Among them was an appeal filed on behalf of Liberty University, a small Christian college in Lynchburg, Va.

Unlike the other cases being held pending the high court’s June decision, Liberty University’s case arrived at the Supreme Court after being dismissed on jurisdictional grounds by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va. The appeals court had ruled 2 to 1 that the federal Anti-Injunction Act prevented the appellate judges from considering the underlying merits of Liberty University’s lawsuit. So Liberty University never received a ruling at the appeals court on the individual allegations it was making in its complaint. That’s what the Supreme Court on Monday ordered be done.

Mathew Staver, a lawyer representing Liberty University, had asked the court to reinstate the lawsuit and send it back to the Fourth Circuit to address the merits of the unresolved claims. The court asked the Obama administration what it thought of the request. Administration lawyers told the court that they did not object. US Solicitor General Donald Verrilli added, however, that his office believed Liberty’s claims were without merit. It is unclear how the Fourth Circuit will view Liberty’s newly focused case, but the three-judge panel was not particularly friendly to Liberty’s lawsuit the first time around.

The unresolved aspects of the suit involve the ACA’s requirement that companies with 50 or more employees provide a government-approved level of health insurance or pay a penalty. The suit also alleges that the reform law forces members of Liberty University’s community to jettison their religious beliefs by paying into a required health-care system that they believe supports and funds abortions. The suit charges that a religious exemption included in the ACA violates the First Amendment prohibition on excessive entanglement of government and religion. The ACA places the government in a position to decide which religions are authentic and deserving of an exemption and which are not, the suit says.

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Part-timers losing health insurance due to Obamacare...
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Walmart (Thanks to Obamacare) Cutting Health Insurance For ‘Part-Time’ Employees
2 December 2012 - Obamacare was sold as legislation that would make health insurance, and health care, more affordable and easier to get. Unfortunately, the exact opposite is proving to be true, with health insurance and health care costs going through the roof.
And now employers, like Walmart, are looking at avoiding the law’s costly mandates by dropping health insurance for previously covered employees.

Walmart, the nation’s largest private employer, plans to begin denying health insurance to newly hired employees who work fewer than 30 hours a week, according to a copy of the company’s policy obtained by The Huffington Post.

Under the policy, slated to take effect in January, Walmart also reserves the right to eliminate health care coverage for certain workers if their average workweek dips below 30 hours — something that happens with regularity and at the direction of company managers.

Walmart declined to disclose how many of its roughly 1.4 million U.S. workers are vulnerable to losing medical insurance under its new policy.

Read more: Walmart (Thanks to Obamacare) Cutting Health Insurance For ‘Part-Time’ Employees :: Minute Men News
 

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