OldUSAFSniper
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Supreme Court upholds health care law - NBC Politics
In part it reads:
So, if I'm reading this right, although the individual mandate has been declared constitutional, Roberts has also said that the states MAY OPT OUT of the entire program!
Still digesting this one... but if 24 states have sued and opt out of the program, where does that leave the entire program?
Oklahoma has already passed a law advising that WE WILL NOT PARTICIPATE. So, another win for the 10th Amendment?
Let's understand this before you lefties break out the champagne...
In part it reads:
But in a major victory for the states who challenged the law, the court said that the Obama administration cannot coerce states to go along with the Medicaid insurance program for low-income people.
The financial pressure which the federal government puts on the states in the expansion of Medicaid is a gun to the head, Roberts wrote.
A State that opts out of the Affordable Care Acts expansion in health care coverage thus stands to lose not merely a relatively small percentage of its existing Medicaid funding, but all of it, Roberts said.
Congress cannot penalize States that choose not to participate in that new program by taking away their existing Medicaid funding, Roberts said.
The Medicaid provision is projected to add nearly 30 million more people to the insurance program for low-income Americans -- but the courts decision left states free to opt out of the expansion if they choose.
So, if I'm reading this right, although the individual mandate has been declared constitutional, Roberts has also said that the states MAY OPT OUT of the entire program!
Still digesting this one... but if 24 states have sued and opt out of the program, where does that leave the entire program?
Oklahoma has already passed a law advising that WE WILL NOT PARTICIPATE. So, another win for the 10th Amendment?
Let's understand this before you lefties break out the champagne...