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Will conservatives declare the Affordable Health Care Act to be completely Constitutional?

The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals court threw out two challenges to what conservatives like to call "Obamacare."

Now, this is not the first, and I don't think it's definitive until the Supreme Court weighs in, but conservatives on this site are quick to declare that the laws are either "dead" or proven to be Unconstitutional every time they get a single ruling against.

If only the most recent ruling exists, and all others can be ignored, just as when conservatives made their declarations, shouldn't they be posting questions lamenting the defeat of their cause?

To be fair and balanced, of course.....

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/09/08/virginia-app...

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago
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    Obama's health care plan will force people to buy health care on the federal level. It states in the constitution that you cannot force anyone to buy anything on the federal level. If people don't want to be insured under Obama's health care plan, they'll be fined. No matter what, people will be forced into the system. This would be a bureaucratic monopoly of health care, therefore leading to higher prices for all medical treatment since there will be no competition. This plan that was intended to help the poor will actually hurt them. Taxes will be raised drastically to pay for this plan; people will make less money and businesses will have to raise prices on their products to stay in business. This is only scratching the surface of how bad universal health care can become. People will say that it works in other countries such as Norway, Germany, and Sweden, etc., but these countries have the population the size of New York, not 300,000,000+ people. Socialism works differently in small populations, but those countries mentioned don't produce anything either. They're welfare states, therefore don't produce any top of the line scientists, engineers, doctors, etc., because there isn't any motivation to become more successful than the next guy. I'll stop here before I go too far into it, but hopefully you get a "jist" of why federal mandated health care such as Obama's health care plan is such a horrific idea.

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  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    The very ultimate courtroom declared Obamacare (aka, the unAffordable Healthcare Act) to be constitutional because of the fact the mandate consists of a tax, no longer a penalty. the place the very ultimate courtroom made an egregious blunders is, in putting forward the bill to be a tax bill, it is going to have been governed as being null and void as a regulation because of the fact a tax bill is a sales bill, and, by ability of area 7 of the US shape, all sales expenditures could desire to originate in the domicile. Obamacare, as a bill, originated in the Senate. The very ultimate courtroom could desire to then have governed that the bill could desire to be restarted in the Congress by ability of being presented in the domicile. In that way, the bill does not be "unconstitutional", besides the undeniable fact that it could lose the status of being regulation. considering there have been quite a few Democrat senators who does not have voted for Obamacare with a tax in it, the regulation does not have initially exceeded the Senate. With maximum individuals human beings voters no longer wanting the bill and with a Republican domicile, the bill does not have been presented for a vote and the bill could have been lifeless. backside line, John Roberts screwed up the regulation and badly misinterpreted the form. The question is why? some say that Chicago politics uncovered some ingredient of Roberts' existence he did no longer % to be made public. (Reference how Obama have been given to be state senator and US Senator for the duration of the exposure of sealed courtroom archives revealing inner maximum factors of the lives of his warring parties.) He could have been bribed, yet that looks no longer likely. Or, my renowned, his anti-seizure drugs could have affected his thinking methods. If authentic, he has a minimum of two many years on the courtroom until now he's complete. and that's all we %, an unpredictable, shoot from the hip, chief Justice.

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