Trump asks court to completely strike down the Affordable Care Act
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https://www.newsweek.com/trump-ends-obamacare-aca-rollback-court-1413317?fbclid=IwAR2iL8T8OA7lpK3_dynUxMKVUzLlOOv-HXu8ZJ1rCNABfbL57bKhj16MMew
While all eyes were on Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday, the Trump administration quietly dealt a huge blow to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare. In a
brief filed Wednesday, the president asked a federal appeals court to end the Obama-era health insurance program and leave more than 20 million Americans without coverage.
The Trump administration joined a coalition of conservative-leaning states and wrote a brief to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, in which it asked the court to uphold
U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor’s ruling late last year to end the law.
The entirety of the law should be rendered unconstitutional because Congress ended the tax penalty for not having health insurance in 2017, the administration said. Originally, the
administration had wanted to eliminate only certain parts of the ACA. But in the court brief filed on Wednesday, it explained that they had changed their minds.
"The remaining provisions of the ACA should not be allowed to remain in effect—again, even if the government might support some individual positions as a policy matter," the
administration wrote.The Trump administration and congressional Republicans currently have no plan in place to replace the ACA and provide coverage to the uninsured.
Because they judge shopped to an insane right wing judge in Texas this has actually gone somewhere. The entire ACA was not contingent on the single line item about the individual mandate, and further congress never removed the legal requirement for the mandate, they just set it to zero because you can't repeal things using the budget manuver
"kill the poor"
Just don't get sick lmao
If you took care of your health, you wouldn't need healthcare
This is what Republicans actually believe
More than halfway through Trump's term and his grand master plan is still "wildly flail my arms to knock everything down with no better ideas."
What a coincidence! I just had a dream last night that I got a bill for an unspecified medical procedure and it absolutely devastated me financially.
what a goddamn coincidence. I'm losing my healthcare on my birthday and the this was probably going to be my best bet for some kind of health insurance I can use to keep, you know. Living.
Well fine. I guess I'll just go die like the government wants me to. It's obvious they don't care about anyone.
Apathy in the US has been a problem for decades. Because of overwhelming information thanks to the internet, the vastly spread-out population, and the diverse selection of people with no enforced universal high-standards. People are getting painted into corners thanks to internet bias, and the enforced two party system.
The government will care when they're is an existential threat that can't be stopped with exploitation, control, or apathetically ignored.
The GOP has had about 10 YEARS to come up with a plan, and all they can say it 'You'll have to wait until I'm re-elected to hear about it'
Sure buddy, sure
honestly does not surprise me anymore. let's get rid of something that has virtually no harm and has actually BENEFITED people in this country, because "hurr durr obummer democrat shit CUZ", literally why? I've finally been able to afford the prescriptions I need despite having shit pay from my job, and I finally am able to go to doctors again. I need to have surgery on my foot and the insurance I have from ACA can actually help make it affordable, instead of putting me into even more crippling debt. But oh well, my mistake moving to the land of opportunities(to die or kill yourself) amirite
Without the burdensome regulations and red tape the free market will deliver better health options at cheaper prices, like suicide pills 2 for 20$!
Things don't last forever, always it ebbs and flows. The US or a post-US will work for the people again, but when and by what cause is anyone's guess.
Good thing my dad with diabetes and terrible heart condition completely relies on ACA, to be able to afford insulin, and his medical checkups.
This will probably single handily tank his reelection chances and push people to medicare for all. It's not a smart move on there part at all.
This will absolutely ruin the lives of millions if people of all demographics. If this happens be prepared for people to die preventable deaths
So, how much of Trump's working class base would start vehemently hating him if they lost their health coverage?
None, they'll blame it on the democrats.
Trump will just say "It's the Democrat's fault for passing such a bad bill that I had to get rid of it" and the majority of Republicans who lost their insurance will believe it
extremely small amount, trump's base operates like a cult and trump can do no wrong, if he hurts them they'll believe it was their fault for deserving to be hurt
His approval's barely shifted since he was elected. They don't care. They never will care. Even if they voice token disapproval, in the end they'll go right back to him. Because ultimately, he's what they want.
There isn't going to be a moment of awakening. Republicans will ride this train to the very end.
Liberals need healthcare because they don't have Jesus, sweetie.
You could argue that none of his voterbase has been affected in ways they can feel in their day-to-day by any of his decisions, however.
Because his entire staff plus Republican leadership have had to dedicate the last two and change years into talking him out of doing anything so severe it'd fuck with the Trump voterbase until they abandoned him. And they've only been partially successful, because the trade wars Trump's started have screwed lots of farmers and anyone that relies on steel and aluminum in their supply chain, the shutdowns fucked federal employees of all political stripes up, and systems are slowly, gradually, subtly failing.
Never mind that during Trump's first term they also totally signed off on the fat tax cut (and now they don't even try and pretend it was beneficial to the middle class) and repeatedly tried to kill the ACA even with "repeal no replace" being a card they tried playing in the Senate more than once. Lobby money talks.
Killing health care with no replacement on a SCOTUS level would put Mitch McConnell in a hard place: be complicit in Trump taking away health care from his own voters and risking the chance that "blame the Democrats" won't work resulting in a blue wave and political disillusionment (potentially leading to trouble) among the right -- or try and talk Pelosi into passing a replacement health bill the Republican Senate will accept and then braving a Trump veto as his own party abandons him to work with adults.
My bet's on turtle cunt gonna take your family's health insurance away. Sadly.
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