task0778
Diamond Member
Last week a Texas federal judge ruled that the ACA is unconstitutional because last year the tax cut bill did away with the penalty tax if you didn't buy health care insurance. Which means the ACA may still require you to purchase HCI but has no teeth to enforce it. So, in reality, there is no actual mandate. Is it therefore unconstitutional?
Let's be clear, I never liked the idea in the 1st place; coercing people to buy something they did not want to ought to have been ruled unconstitutional a long time ago. We would all be better off if the pols quit fighting over a program that sucked from day one, still sucks, and people are leaving it in droves unless the gov't subsidizes most if not all of your costs to use it. It isn't really much more than a big expansion of Medicaid IMHO. But unconstitutional? I got my doubts about that.
Let's be clear, I never liked the idea in the 1st place; coercing people to buy something they did not want to ought to have been ruled unconstitutional a long time ago. We would all be better off if the pols quit fighting over a program that sucked from day one, still sucks, and people are leaving it in droves unless the gov't subsidizes most if not all of your costs to use it. It isn't really much more than a big expansion of Medicaid IMHO. But unconstitutional? I got my doubts about that.