Court keeps upcoming health care decision secret

the ACA will be thrown out by a vote along party lines, to wit: five conservative justices against four liberals.

The righties care nothing about the constitutionality of this Act, but they do care about who pads their pocketbooks and their political party.

Health Insurance companies liked that part of the law. They pad plenty of political party pocket books. I imagine that the 5 conservative judges are having a really hard time right now - warring money between health insurance companies and other loyalties.

If it's a 5-4 split, then we know that the health insurance companies didn't win.

must spend at least 80% of "their" premiums on actual health care for the insured. I am sure that pisses them off. No discrimination based on pre-existing conditions, keeping children on their families insurance until they are 26 y.o., etc.
I think that these and other mandates will make the insurance companies oppose the ACA even though they are getting a much larger pool of customers. The new customers will not be as profitable.
No, America should not be run as a business but we all know that we are "America Inc." The other developed nations would never stand for this, but we have been so propagandized, so used to being screwed, that the majority of Americans do not want the ACA.
It is ironic that "we" have installed so many "puppet regimes" and we have become the largest (and most complacent) one...

5-4, the whole thing will be overturned.

Those who think Anthony Kennedy is somehow a "swing" vote are sadly misinformed. He's a hard core right winger, just not as much in the pocket of the Kochs as Roberts, Alito, Scalia and Thomas.

but I think you are correct. Kennedy has very rarely gone with the Liberal side of the court.

I thought they were just looking at a few parts of the law? Like they could strike down the mandate?

There are no better examples of gross financial inequity and national hypocrisy than that of American health care. The quality of your health care is directly tied to your - or your employer's - financial condition, and not based on necessity as it should be.

At first I thought the penalty for not having health care insurance was going to be a minimum amount, e.g. $300.00 per year. I wasn't clear on whether you had to show proof of insurance or not (similar to auto insurance where you either have to submit evidence of coverage or that is provided to the state). But I thought it would be like any other tax provision - if you don't pay you are subject to collections, liens and potential imprisonment.

What I have now learned is the law specifically says the government cannot enforce collection of the "fee/penalty". They cannot place liens, garnishments, etc. (normal for other tax offenses) nor can this ever result in any kind of imprisonment.

If the law is overturned in its entirety I think the President and the Democrats need to pepper the airwaves, print media, etc. with the facts of what the HCA was and wasn't. They did a piss poor job of this over the past couple of years. This was a law that Americans should be overwhelmingly in favor of. Instead polling suggests most oppose it. They don't oppose the real law - they oppose what they have been told is in the law.

If this fails then the only other option is a public option where you and/or your employer pay into a government-run insurance program just like Social Security and Medicare. This is something the righties are absolutely opposed to because it will kill (no pun intended) opportunities for making profit off of people's health.

...health care message out, which is entirely correct. If the messengers we have aren't up to snuff, then high time to replace them. We have the high ground on this issue. There is one reason and one reason only that each and every American does not have access to quality, affordable heath care: GREED!

Since we're not really being "forced" to buy health insurance, the Supreme Court should absolutely uphold the law in it's entirety. I can't see a real argument against if there's no real consequences.

We'll see. Fingers crossed.

will start over and produce the universal coverage

the United States can't continue with the inflation rates of 10% to 20% in medical bills for Americans
in the middle of a Depression

there is only so much in America's budget and Americans pockets

the reason we are not competitive with other countries and we have a higher infant mortality rate than other countries
is that poor women are not getting good prenatal care and supportive care afterward

America's medical system is going down the tubes
and the Supreme Court judges are part of the system

which is deteriorating

We just go back and start again
with a Democratic House and Democratic Senate and a Democratic President

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If anyone actually knows which way that the decision is going to go, they could make a lot of money.

The mandate was a Republican idea. Why assume that the mandate will be thrown out?

The week before the election?

Because if they do, the people of this Nation, the one's with any rationality left and common sense, shall and should hit the streets .. and shout so loud with our voices and our votes ... that we are fed up. Health care is a human right ... and not for profit. Oh, you might say, in a perfect world? You betcha.

Because then we could try to get the single payer instead.

...instead he threw us under the bus and let Max Baucus and the Big Insurance companies write the law.. then he rubber stamped it.

Very sloppy...