“The court is now hearing a separate challenge to a key part of the law which, if successful, would deprive millions of Americans of tax-credit subsidies to help them afford health insurance.”
Simple answer FFA. We don’t have any choice. They made sure of that when they passed it. However, if the Court decides the subsidies as written only applied to the States with State Exchanges, this law will be like a house of cards and collapse.
Option 1: Sign up & get insurance
Option 2: Do not sign up, do not get insurance, pay a penalty
While it would be nice to have a 3rd option that falls somewhere in-between those two extremes, I believe American’s do have a choice on this matter: either get some insurance or don’t and pay a penalty. The choice of no insurance is still a choice, IMO.
Option 4 – Get rid of all the bad stuff like the mandates, taxes and make it voluntary instead of mandatory or you get taxed for not doing it. Allow companies to design their own policies and choices for the folks, let companies sell across state lines to create competition. How about some real choices instead of the government forcing you to buy what you don’t want.
January 13, 2015 at 5:43 pm
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That is coming in March I thought I read???
This one just seems redundant.
Rose, the SC already decided this is a tax, not a penalty.
Way to display your ignorance of the Constitution and presidential history. The Constitution give the president the right to issue Executive Orders to dictate how laws are to be enforced.
Just look at the history of EOs and you will see President Obama is far behind many of his predecssors.
“The court is now hearing a separate challenge to a key part of the law which, if successful, would deprive millions of Americans of tax-credit subsidies to help them afford health insurance.”
In other words, comply with the law.
Since when do we get to pick and choose what part of which law we want to follow?
Simple answer FFA. We don’t have any choice. They made sure of that when they passed it. However, if the Court decides the subsidies as written only applied to the States with State Exchanges, this law will be like a house of cards and collapse.
I’d posit that we DO have a choice.
Option 1: Sign up & get insurance
Option 2: Do not sign up, do not get insurance, pay a penalty
While it would be nice to have a 3rd option that falls somewhere in-between those two extremes, I believe American’s do have a choice on this matter: either get some insurance or don’t and pay a penalty. The choice of no insurance is still a choice, IMO.
Option 4 – Get rid of all the bad stuff like the mandates, taxes and make it voluntary instead of mandatory or you get taxed for not doing it. Allow companies to design their own policies and choices for the folks, let companies sell across state lines to create competition. How about some real choices instead of the government forcing you to buy what you don’t want.
That is coming in March I thought I read???
This one just seems redundant.
Rose, the SC already decided this is a tax, not a penalty.
If the Supreme Ct yanks the subsidy, its going to fail fast…
Beware! Land of the free.
If the President can ignore laws that he doesn’t like, we can too. Is he getting penalized???
Wait a minute,
Way to display your ignorance of the Constitution and presidential history. The Constitution give the president the right to issue Executive Orders to dictate how laws are to be enforced.
Just look at the history of EOs and you will see President Obama is far behind many of his predecssors.
http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/disposition.html