Well…in case you haven’t heard, the supreme court ruled in favor of Obamacare this morning, allowing the premium subsidies to continue on both the federal and state exchanges. I think they finally got one right in this case…it was clear from the start that was what the law meant…and everyone who worked on it said it did…and the decision going 6-3 for wasn’t even close…and it shouldn’t have been given that the court is supposed to follow precedent and that is how they have read this stuff for more than a hundred years. I found the reaction of Scalia to be more of the same old crap that he spews when he doesn’t get his way and it was funny that Roberts trolled him a little on his dissent…so now, we are waiting for the equality case that could come down tomorrow or Monday…that one shouldn’t be close, either….but you never know with this court….
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A mixed bag…
Well…have been thinking of a topic for the day and haven’t been able to come up with a big one that would do it so I guess I’ll just do some thoughts that will be a mixed bag of ideas…this week is the week that the supreme court hears argument on the King v. Burwell fake case that the the right is using to try to gut Obamamcare…there are so many problems with the case that the court never should have taken it but, with the right wing hacks on the court, merits of cases really don’t mean anything anymore…there was another police murder in LA over the past day where 5-8 cops descended on a homeless man to get him to take his tent down during the day and the killed him with the standard excuse that he was ‘going for” an officers gun…and, again, no cop was suspended even though the cell phone video showed he was on the ground and never ever going for any gun….that makes the average of 3 people per day that are killed by cops in this country…in Michigan there have been 3 killed in the last week by the same force just south of GR…this has got to stop…geez…
Here’s the sick thing with ACA repeal…
Well….not sure if you’ve been following the King v. Burwell case that is in front of the supreme court…you know, the onethat the repubs think will undo the ACA because of 5 words that they want to interpret that healthcare subsidies are only available to those on state run exchanges even though every lawmaker that worked on the law says is not the correct interpretation…they intended that all people on the exchanges, both federal and state would get subsidies for their healthcare costs. Here’s the sick thing about this whole case…if the repubs are successful in gutting the law, the fallout will be on people who live in repub dominated states who petulantly refused to set up state exchanges just because they hate Obama and don’t give a damn about anyone but the rich…and the real irony is that most of the people who will no longer be able to afford insurance will be the ones that elected the repubs….I would say they get what they deserve but no one deserves to be without health insurance…and I should know…I have been without it for 13 years now and not a day goes by that I don’t think about what could happen if I get sick…will have no choice but to pull the plug and just die….something the repubs think is how healthcare should work….and I hate them for it…