The Supreme Court decided not to repeal the Affordable Healthcare Act:
The Affordable Healthcare Act, aka Obamacare, has been upheld by the Supreme Court. It was a typical 5-4 decision, but Kennedy sided with the conservatives, and Bush-appointed Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the less-conservatives.
I’m not sure how I feel about it because I don’t understand the Affordable Healthcare Act. I’ve listened to a lot of talking points about it both from the Republican and the Democrat sources but none of them addressed anything specific about this piece of legislation. I feel like most people gush “Oh, it’s so horrible” or “Oh, it’s wonderful” without any real understanding of what the Act entails.
How do you feel about the SCOTUS decision?
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The Canadian Health act is five pages and the American Health Act or really the affortable Insurance Act is 2300 pages so I understand why people would have different opinions. We’ll have to see how it plays out in practice and it certainly doesn’t curtail healthcare expense increases although it seems to be more equitable than the previous system of health rationing by ability to pay or insurance company policy. The previous thoughts are predicated on Obama winning a second term and no matter who wins there will be a massive reduction in overall government expenditure next year which means that direct and indirect federal transfer payment reductions will put the states budgets up against the wall and the states really will reduce public employees medical benefits.
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I am for single payer as in Canada, but having the ACA is better than not having it, for the reasons NG gives in the second part of his second sentence. Also, having the Supreme Court make a gesture in favor of a slightly more rational system is a good sign.
I am out of loop / not paying attention NG – what is the reduction in government expenditure about, has it already been decided upon?
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In Canada, everybody still has to have insurance at work because, apparently, the huge taxes are not enough. 😦 Of course, the system is still better than here.
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What is needed is to absolutely [sic] sever the tie between employment and health insurance, which places unfair burdens on both employers and employees, and most disconcertingly, gives employers an excuse to think of employees as liabilities rather than assets. I’m open to both left-of-liberal (single payer) and conservative (vouchers) ways out of employer-based health care. I prefer the left-hand-path, but employer-based health care (initiated as a wartime stop-gap measure) has to be put out of its (and our) misery, and the DLC’s for some unfathomable reason seem to be attached to it.
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I agree completely! Employer-based health insurance is completely stupid.
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Insurance companies are real predators.
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A lot of Americans are so angry about the SCOTUS decision on upholding Obamacare that they’re threatening to “move to Canada.“ I think that some education about the Canadian health system is in order here. LOL
https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/Moving to Canada
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Oh, it’s truly horrible, but the status quo is even more horrible. For progressive Americans, the saga of ACA, spanning the entire calendar year 2009, was a poignant and incessant reminder of why the legislative process is likened to sausage-making. It turned some of us against politics, and may have been the main driver of the enthusiasm gap of 2010 that the main$tream media have an editorial policy of not acknowledging.
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