Posted by Tina
An Atlanta court has ruled against the federal mandate to purchase healthcare insurance. This represents another win on the long road to the Supreme Court for those who think Obamacare should be scrapped.
A federal appeals court struck down a central provision of the 2010 health-care law Friday, ruling that Congress overstepped its authority by requiring virtually all Americans to obtain health insurance.
The divided three-judge panel from the U. S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta is the first appellate court to rule against any portion of the statute. The decision marks a significant victory for the 26 Republican attorneys general and governors who challenged the health-care law on behalf of their states.
That’s two in one day!
Not to worry!
We’ll just get rid of the need for insurance!
THIS is precisely how Obama will get us to single payer medicine. He planned this one way back.
Obama know that insurance does NOT make people well, health care does. He has never wanted to waste money fattening the insurance companies’ profits–he is the banker’s man, after all.
As mentioned often here at Post_Scripts, the Democrats are way better at the game than the Republicans–having double-crossed them repeatedly. This is just one more example of how the baggerz have aided and abetted Obama without even knowing it!
All part of the how . . .
Re: “This is just one more example of how the baggerz have aided and abetted Obama without even knowing it!”
Interesting take there Quentin. A court strikes down a provision in the health care law and it is just one more example of how Obama is taking advantage of members of the stupid Tea party who are foolishly aiding and abetting his true cause. Dang those Tea party folks sooooooo dumb!
On this we can agree, no members of the Tea party, contributors to Post Scripts, or people who comment (like me) ever saw that coming.
Well, maybe some did.
A tip of the hat to you, sir.
Obama will not take us to single payer…it would be single payer hell.
Obama is an incompetent radical progressive killer of the American dream, freedom, and choice; a man who seeks to enrich himself by using others and at the expense of others. He is a man who profits without doing a thing to EARN it.
An insurance policy is a product. Americans would have many choices if government would change regulations to invite competition and remove restrictions on the types of policies made available. Freedom and choice would be preserved and costs would come down.
Government single payer is an oppressive, unavoidable, single option that will suck up massive amounts of money from the people and deliver an inferior product leaving the people with no other option.
It’s insane to ruin the entire system to try to accomodate the few. There are better ways to see that health care costs are affordable and can be delivered to anyone who needs it.
I want to know what is called the new regulations to get rid of health insurance. What are content contained in these regulations? Why should the rules be held like that? And how effective are the rules of health insurance for everyone?
Gregory thank you for asking. Obmamacare doesn’t get rid of health insurance but it does give government an advantage that will gradually move people away from private plans causing them to go out of business and dissappear.
The bill is very long and very complex. Legal people are still going through it in an attempt to know how to implement it and determine its legal implications. You can read a summary of the bill here:
http://dpc.senate.gov/healthreformbill/healthbill04.pdf
Other than that I would suggest a few articles. The following article talks about language in Obamacare that guts Medicare Advantage, a program that contains free market principles and has helped to keep costs down for those seniors who choose it:
http://netrightdaily.com/2011/06/obamacare-taking-the-%e2%80%98advantage%e2%80%99-out-of-medicare-advantage/
The language in Obamacare that establishes insurance exchanges is another area of concern. An article in Human Events will help to explain how this language will eventually lead to a single payer, government system and ruin our health care by limiting services and forcing costs up.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=39246
Laws encourage or discourage behaviors. Obamacare is written in a way that encourages businesses to drop insurance coverage. It is written in such a way as to discourage competition that would keep costs down. It is written to herd people into a government, single payer system over time.
Democrat Representative Jon Conyers admitted that the law was written as a platform for a single payer system:
http://www.youdecidepolitics.com/2011/03/15/democrats-obamacare-is-the-platform-for-single-payer/
We were promised that Obamacare would bring costs down and that we could keep our insurance and our doctors. Since Obamacare was passed the following has occurred as reported in newspapers across the nation:
This is the kind of thing that has happened to private insurers and health centers across America in just the first year since the bill passed. The trend is away from private sector options and toward rising prices. Expect high taxes, expensive healthcare, shortages of doctors, and rationing:
http://dailycaller.com/2011/01/27/the-obamacare-rationing-is-beginning/
This is a very bad bill and a very bad way to deliver healthcare and healthcare insurance to our citizens. There are better ways to tackle problems like pre-existing conditions, high premiums, and the uninsured. Market based, private sector solutions that force competition and encourage participation would work to bring costs down while opening up choices for our citizens.
Any debate about premiums eventually comes to a central question: How much insurers should spend in medical care for every dollar they collect in premiums known in the industry as “medical-loss ratio.” Insurers are caught between investors, who want to see a low percentage spent on medical expenses, and federal reform, which will require insurers next year to spend 80 percent of premium revenue on medical expenses in the individual market.