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Late Friday news dump to keep the markets from freefall, I assume. A Texas US District court judge has ruled the ACA unconstitutional.
The most sickening thing about this is that the judge ruled it unconstitutional in its entirety *because* of a change enacted by the Republicans, removal of the mandate.
I want to vomit. My son, a university graduate, relies on the ACA for his healthcare because his employer doesn't provide it. I can't even imagine being the person (read: Texas AG) who pursues a court case to deprive millions of Americans health care. What kind of empty-souled person would you have to be?
(On a side-note, the judge is a Bush-appointee. We'll be seeing a lot more like this as the GOP fills up those empty court slots around the nation.)
The most sickening thing about this is that the judge ruled it unconstitutional in its entirety *because* of a change enacted by the Republicans, removal of the mandate.
If the ruling stands, it would create widespread disruption across the U.S. health-care system — from no-charge preventive services for older Americans on Medicare to the expansion of Medicaid in most states, to the shape of the Indian Health Service — in all, hundreds of provisions in the law that was a prized domestic achievement of President Barack Obama.
President Trump, who has made the dismantling of the ACA a chief goal since his campaign, swiftly tweeted his pleasure at the opinion. “As I predicted all along, Obamacare has been struck down as an UNCONSTITUTIONAL disaster!”
I want to vomit. My son, a university graduate, relies on the ACA for his healthcare because his employer doesn't provide it. I can't even imagine being the person (read: Texas AG) who pursues a court case to deprive millions of Americans health care. What kind of empty-souled person would you have to be?
(On a side-note, the judge is a Bush-appointee. We'll be seeing a lot more like this as the GOP fills up those empty court slots around the nation.)