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Re: SCOTUS LIVEBLOG - Obamacare Mandate Survives [W:125]
NO, the Court ruled that the Fed cannot take away the previuos Medicade funding if States don't want to implement the new expznsion. I doubt Staes will want to turn down the NEW money for the expansion so they wil go along. Basically the entire law was upheld as Constutional. You'd think the Reps. would be happy....there was NO legislating frm the bench. We all know how they hate that.
My take on things based on limited knowledge that may be incorrect.
The individual mandate was ruled as a tax, and a tax cannot be struck down as unconstitutional until it is implemented (which it has not yet). Obama also campaigned that this was definitely not a tax, which means he was either ignorant of what a tax really is, or he was lying in order to gain support and disprove accusations by Republicans that the mandate was a tax increase.
Part of the law mandated that states expand Medicaid. I believe that this was struck down as unconstitutional.
NO, the Court ruled that the Fed cannot take away the previuos Medicade funding if States don't want to implement the new expznsion. I doubt Staes will want to turn down the NEW money for the expansion so they wil go along. Basically the entire law was upheld as Constutional. You'd think the Reps. would be happy....there was NO legislating frm the bench. We all know how they hate that.