Trying to overturn Obamacare, during a pandemic, when it won't get heard before the election, and has no chance...BRILLIANT!

[h=1]Q&A: Overturning 'Obamacare' during a pandemic[/h]
RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press•June 26, 2020

[h=1]Virus Outbreak Texas[/h] Healthcare professional Kenzie Anderson takes a sample from a patient at a United Memorial Medical Center COVID-19 testing site Friday, June 26, 2020, in Houston. The number of COVID-19 cases continues to rise across the state. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has said that the state is facing a "massive outbreak" in the coronavirus pandemic and that some new local restrictions may be needed to protect hospital space for new patients. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The decade-old health care law that has divided Americans even as it expanded coverage and protected people with preexisting conditions is being put to yet another test. Amid a pandemic, President Donald Trump and some red states want the Supreme Court to declare the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional. Blue states and the U.S. House say the case has no merit. Here are questions and answers as the case unfolds:
WHAT HAPPENS NOW?
In the real world, very little will change right away. Politically, it's another story.
It’s unclear if the court will hear oral arguments before the November election. A decision isn't likely until next year, which means the ACA stays in place for the foreseeable future.
Even if a Supreme Court majority comes down of the side of “Obamacare's” opponents, unwinding the 10-year-old law would be time-consuming and fraught with political risk. Many of the ACA's provisions are popular, such as guaranteed coverage for people with preexisting medical conditions, and birth control coverage for women free of charge. Others are wired into the health care system, like changes to Medicare payments and enhanced legal authority against fraud.
In the political realm, Trump's unrelenting opposition to the ACA energizes Democrats going into the November elections.
As if on cue, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has rolled out a bill to expand the health law, and the House is expected to vote on it Monday.
The goal isn't so much to pass legislation, since Pelosi's bill won't get a look in the Republican-controlled Senate. But it may make some Republicans squirm by forcing them to cast a vote their Democratic opponents can use in campaign ads this fall.
“God willing the courts will do the right thing, but we just don’t know,” says Pelosi. “So we are getting prepared for what comes next.”
HOW IS OBAMACARE DOING UNDER TRUMP?
Remarkably well, despite dramatic pronouncements by politicians on both sides.
Larry Levitt of the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that about 23 million people are covered under the law, about the same as when former President Barack Obama left office.
That includes about 12.5 million covered under Medicaid expansions in most states and some 10 million through health insurance marketplaces like HealthCare.gov that offer individual plans subsidized by the taxpayers.
According to Gallup, Americans under Trump have either tilted in favor of the ACA or been closely split. By contrast, during Obama's last term, the public more often tilted against the law. Fifty-two percent approved of the ACA in March, while 47% disapproved.
A turning point came when Trump and a GOP Congress failed to repeal Obamacare in 2017.
DOES THE ACA MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC?
It has taken on a new role. Coverage through the ACA can be a lifeline for people who lost their health insurance as a result of layoffs.
The Kaiser Family Foundation estimated recently that nearly 27 million people lost employer coverage because of pandemic-related layoffs, and nearly 80% would be eligible for Medicaid or an Obamacare plan with subsidized premiums.
New government numbers show HealthCare.gov enrollment has grown by about half a million people amid the pandemic.
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO PROTECTIONS FOR PEOPLE WITH PREEXISTING CONDITIONS?
That's a source of anxiety for many Americans.
A Kaiser foundation poll in January found that 57% are worried that they or someone in their family will lose health insurance if the Supreme Court overturns the ACA's protections for people with preexisting conditions. Under Obamacare, insurers cannot use someone's medical history to turn them away or charge them more.
The Trump administration has argued in court that the law's constitutional flaws would also entangle its protections for people with preexisting conditions.
Yet Trump has promised he would preserve those safeguards, without laying out a plan for how he would do that.
Some prominent Republicans say they never intended to undermine protections for people with preexisting conditions when they voted to repeal Obamacare's unpopular fines on people going uninsured. That repeal is the root cause of the current court case, since the law's opponents argue that without the fines the entire statute is rendered unconstitutional.
Traditionally, Republicans have supported protections for people with preexisting conditions, but with a limitation that individuals have to keep up their coverage to qualify.
WHERE’S JOE BIDEN IN ALL OF THIS?
He's backing his former boss' signature legislation.
The Democratic presidential candidate says if elected president he would build on the ACA to move the nation closer to coverage for all. Biden would increase the health law's subsidies for individual private plans, finish its Medicaid expansion, and create a new “public option” alternative modeled on Medicare.
HOW IS THE U.S. DOING ON ACCESS TO HEALTH INSURANCE?
Under Trump, the uninsured rate had started inching up again. The economic shutdown to try to slow the spread of coronavirus is likely to have made things much worse, but government numbers aren't available to quantify the impact.
The Census Bureau reported last year that 27.5 million people, 8.5% of the population, lacked health insurance coverage in 2018. That was an increase of 1.9 million uninsured, or 0.5 percentage point, from 2017.
It's not clear how many people who lost employer coverage in the pandemic have wound up uninsured.
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Lol, 75 views, no comments. Can you say, "grumpy, distressed, and, with no comeback?" I KNEW you could. It's looking more and more like Bunker Boy knows he's gonna take it in the shorts, BIG time, and, he's just gonna try and do as much damage as possible before he's kicked out.

Glass houses Dafinch. Glass houses

will u abandon this thread?

C'mon guys no body willing to MAN UP and defend this move by Dump (other than the drunken lunatic whose posts I have neither interest in seeing, nor the ability to do so)?

Cmon Dafink, man up and turn yourself in


“Im taking that stealing, cheating, embezzling, lying, cocksucking worthless piece of shit down” “he is a human disgrace”


wow , dude means business

Lol, even the poll run by Faux News shows that support for ACA has increased markedly recently. Way to be on the right side again, DDD.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHfBEopmyis&pp=wgIECgIIAQ==

Lol, not even 2 weeks after Twittler's infamous "MILLIONS that turned out to be 6,200, the Okies deliver ANNUTER "FUCK OFF, FATBOY" to him:
Oklahoma becomes latest red state to approve Obamacare's Medicaid expansion at the ballot box

Christopher Wilson Senior Writer Yahoo News•July 1, 2020

Voters in Oklahoma narrowly approved an expansion of Medicaid on Tuesday night, making it the latest conservative-leaning state to approve of the Obamacare provision at the ballot box.
State Question 802 passed with just 50.5 percent, or by 6,488 votes. The measure bypasses the Republican-controlled Legislature and governor’s mansion to enshrine insurance coverage for low-income Oklahomans via the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) in the state’s constitution.
“In the middle of a pandemic, Oklahomans stepped up and delivered lifesaving care for nearly 200,000 of our neighbors, took action to keep our rural hospitals open, and brought our tax dollars home to protect jobs and boost our local economy,” Yes on 802 campaign manager Amber England said in a statement after the victory.
Oklahoma is one of the states dealing with a “Medicaid gap,” the result of Republican state governments’ choosing not to use the ACA’s Medicaid expansion provision. The expansion provides federal funds to help low-income Americans get health care, with the federal government picking up the lion’s share of the cost.
Without the expansion, some residents — specifically those who make too much to qualify for Medicaid but not enough to qualify for subsidies — are left in a difficult position when it comes to obtaining health insurance.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of 2018 Oklahoma had the second highest rate of uninsured residents in the country, behind only Texas. More than half a million people in the state do not have health insurance. But with Question 802 passed at the ballot box, the state must now expand Medicaid by July 1, 2021.
Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt opposed the initiative, saying the state could not afford to cover its 10 percent share of the expansion — the rest of which is covered by the federal government. Projections for the expansion’s cost have risen due to more residents being out of work amid the coronavirus pandemic, which has also resulted in lower revenue projections for the state budget due to the economic slowdown. Stitt’s alternate plan for expansion fizzled earlier this year.
Oklahoma has seen a surge in coronavirus cases in recent weeks. There have been nearly 14,000 cases in the state and at least 387 people have died of the disease.
The organizations opposing the Medicaid expansion used progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in their advertising in an attempt to convince Oklahoma voters that the expansion amounted to a government takeover of health care, a campaign the congresswoman noted on Twitter Wednesday.
“How’s that ‘anti-AOC’ advertising going, Oklahoma GOP? Oh, it ended with voters supporting Medicaid expansion? Nice,” she wrote on Twitter Wednesday, adding a smiling emoji.

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
The vote in Oklahoma follows a recent trend of voters in GOP-leaning states passing the Medicaid expansion via ballot initiatives. In 2018, voters in the traditionally red states of Idaho, Nebraska and Utah voted in favor of Medicaid expansion. This was preceded in 2017 by voters approving a similar measure in Maine. Missouri, where voters will choose whether to expand Medicaid on Aug. 4, is up next.
Republican governors and legislators have pushed back against some of the ballot initiatives. Former Republican Gov. Paul LePage of Maine refused to implement his state’s Medicaid expansion, which was supported by Democrat Janet Mills, who won the race to replace LePage’s open seat in 2018. Mills made the expansion one of her first acts in office.
The Trump administration is attempting to overturn Obamacare in the Supreme Court after Congress refused to get rid of it in 2017. Even some conservatives who favor repeal of the ACA — like the Wall Street Journal editorial board — expect the lawsuit to fail when justices hear it later this year.
If the lawsuit is successful, however, an estimated 15 million who rely on the expansion would lose their insurance, while tens of millions more with preexisting conditions could also be denied coverage.
Jonathan Schleifer is the executive director of the Fairness Project, a nonprofit organization that pushes progressive ballot measures at the state level. He told Yahoo News in 2018 that the attempts to repeal the ACA have increased its popularity, something corroborated in recent polling, including a June Fox News survey that showed record-high support for the program.
“Every attempt to repeal the ACA increasingly clarified two things for Americans: what was at stake for them and their families and just how committed opponents of the ACA were, even if it meant millions losing coverage and personal costs skyrocketing,” said Schleifer.
“It became clear to Americans that they could not count on D.C. nor their statehouses to do the right thing. So they decided to grab a clipboard and take their future into their own hands.”

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This dude is so fucking stupid, he's send the $ 500 to Nigeria IF HE HAD IT

They're getting dumber by the day

Willie99 said:

Duuuuuhfeces, you just inherited 15 million dollars from a relative in Nigeria

just send them $ 500 for processing fees, and they'll send you 15 million dollars

This dude is so fucking stupid, he's send the $ 500 to Nigeria IF HE HAD IT

They're getting dumber by the day

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I'm smart to know that Twittler has taken it up the ass with no vasoline on each and every issue that SCOTUS has ruled on in which he had an interest, and that the election in Oklahoma yesterday was yet another extension of that. I also know that, when Twittler takes it up the ass in the ELECTION, YOUR dumb ass is gonna be wandering around the streets in a daze, mumbling, "Wha' HAPPENED? Fucking Lefty scum!"ointer:kth)(&^Slapping-silly90))Loser!@#0:hahahahahazzkick(&^

Funny Daboybitch talked this shit 4 yrs ago

ignorant retard is just a waste of space