IMO, Obamacare is now more firmly in place as the “foundation” of implementing a national health insurance and it appears that this current administration and Congress is on a “bum rush” to implement as much socialism as they can before the 2022 mid term elections. President Biden seems interested in having history look upon his administration on the same level as the two most socialist President of the last 100 years… Roosevelt (SS) and Johnson (Medicare/Medicaid).  There is 50 million people on Medicare and 70 million on Medicaid – abt 38% of our population. Our bureaucrats are moving people on Medicare/Medicaid over to Medicare Advantage & Medicaid Managed Care – which is care provided by for profit insurance companies. Is this the template that will be used for a national health insurance ?  Where the Feds will have a fixed cost per pt/month and the entities providing your care will be interested in paying out a lot less for care than they are being paid to provide care … so that they can produce a profit and keep their stock holders happy.

Supreme Court Upholds Affordable Care Act

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/953297

The Supreme Court dismissed a major challenge to the Affordable Care Act, upholding the national healthcare law for the third time.

The case, California v Texas, argued that after the elimination of individual penalties in 2017 for not maintaining health insurance, the entire law must be struck down. Many legal scholars viewed the argument as weak, and the justices decided that Obamacare can still exist without the penalty for lacking health coverage.

The court voted 7-2 to block the GOP-led suit saying the plaintiffs did not have the right to bring the case. Justices Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito were the lone dissenters.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, celebrated the ruling.

“The Affordable Care Act has won. The Supreme Court has just ruled: the ACA is here to stay and now we’re going to try to make it bigger and better,” according to CNN. “”For more than a decade, the assault on our health care law was relentless from Republicans in Congress, from the executive branch itself and from Republican attorneys general in the courts. Each time in each arena, the ACA has prevailed.”

The seven justices who voted to block the suit ruled that Texas and the other plaintiff states had no reason to sue because they are not required to pay anything under the law’s mandate and therefore had no standing, NPR reported.

“To have standing, a plaintiff must ‘allege personal injury fairly traceable to the defendant’s allegedly unlawful conduct and likely to be redressed by the requested relief,'” the court ruled. “No plaintiff has shown such an injury ‘fairly traceable’ to the ‘allegedly unlawful conduct’ challenged here.”

This is a developing story. Please return for updates.

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