Obamacare — Will It Survive or Not?
The Supreme Court's decision is expected to be announced this week, possibly even Monday. Do you think President Barack Obama's health care law will be upheld or will it be struck down?
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This week is expected to be a big one in politics. For the last few month’s we’ve been told to expect a ruling on the legal challenge to President Barack Obama’s health care law by June — then by late June. Well, June doesn’t get any later than this week. So predictions are that if not Monday, then at the very latest by Thursday, we should know the outcome of the Supreme Court’s ruling on what has now become known as Obamacare.
Everyone says it will be close, a 5 to 4 ruling, but which way it will go is anybody’s guess — and everybody is guessing. Obama’s supporters say it will be upheld, definitely. His opponents — well they say it will be struck down, definitely.
So what do you think? Will the law be upheld in its entirety, will parts of it be struck down or will all of it be struck down? And what about the individual mandate — will that be upheld? And while we’re debating it, what do you think should happen? Is Obamacare the way to go or do you think there is a better option?
William Miller
2:36 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012
There are a multitude of issues that are for the States themselves to decide, not the Federal Government. The usurpation of power by our elected officials at the Federal level are increasingly jeapordizing the future of the this Countries wealth and front running status. We have the highest standard of living in the world because of the foresight of our founders. Limitations set on the Federal level to thwart power grabbing, and generally speaking vote buying through taxation of some for the "benefit" of others. This is only creating a divide through envy and loathing, a divide that will surely allow the easy conquering of the truly patriotic and freedom minded among us. The great wisdom of our founders was that the States themselves should hold the power closer to governed, whom without there is no income to tax, nor wealth to sustain a Country. Citizens were recognized as the end all, and most importantly individual above all. The whole is portected by allowing the individual to fail, and learn to achieve. That each State can adopt policies that may or may not prosper. Citizens can then leave these States for greener pastures, the State can fail and learn and adjust without putting undue stress on the Nation as a whole. When the Federal level begins acting within parameters set forth for the States, that puts the entire Nation in peril. Obamacare is a manifestation of this, as it should be at a State and NOT A FEDERAL LEVEL.
tim gunn
1:22 am on Monday, June 25, 2012
I think the obamacare should go out of comission just like obama is goin to this election year!!! He has done nothing for the economony at all but make it worser!!!!!
Ben
7:49 am on Monday, June 25, 2012
This Country needs to vote Obama out of office, this November, He has been the worst President elected in my life time, Jimmy Carter is now, not the worst President in history now, Thank You. The economy, he does not know how to fix, the Unemployed is about twice the rate in this state as it was 4 Years ago, The Health Care System he has proposed is good for young people, Older people it is Bad, Ask any Doctor in Monroe, Loganville, anywear, they will tell you, The Moral Values & Religious Values have gone down the worst since this so call president has been in office, This Country owes more money than ever before and a lot of other things he has done that would take days to tell about, Yes this Country Need some Health Care Program, But not this one
Peter
9:53 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012
So exactly what health care program do you recommend, Ben? And how exactly has Obama led to the decline of moral and religious values? Sorry, but unemployment is not twice the rate it was, either. And finally, I think George W. Bush could take Jimmy Carter in an examination of the worst presidents in history.
American Patriot
4:10 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012
I think@ Ben was trying to refer to "moral hazard". Like many I am not sure he knows what it means. He is close on the unemployment rate. In June 08 the real unemployment rate was 5.5% today it is 11.1% and getting worse. According to Paul Krugman we need to create 300,000 jobs for 60 months to keep pace w/population growth and return to full employment at 4.5%. Each month you don't create at least 127,000 jobs you need more you will need more the following month to make up for what's been lost. Last month we created a whopping 60k jobs. For the record the recession ended June 2009 which took away over 5 million jobs. You can put most of that on Bush. However since Obama took office we lost an additional 6.5 million jobs and the recession ended 3 years ago. Biggest reason for that. Businesses don't like his policies and are waiting for him to leave before reinvesting. Currently US companies have over 2 trillion (yes trillion) in cash on the books waiting to be put to use.
Brian Crawford
11:16 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2012
We haven't created 300,000 jobs a month consistently even in the best of times. Krugman's right but he also proposes massive government stimulus to create those jobs and Republicans have blocked every attempt at that.
Obama inherited a free fall in job losses and immediately began turning that around. The last 27 months of positive private sector job growth looks pretty much like a normal economy. Republicans have insured a stalled economy and high unemployment by cutting hundreds of thousands of government jobs even though we've grown government jobs during every recent recession under a Republican President.
Allen Allens
9:56 am on Monday, June 25, 2012
OUT with hellcare AND hussein obama!
laura
11:15 am on Monday, June 25, 2012
YOu can't lump everyone or states together. We each have our own beating drum. Find something that works for everyone and tweek it. But doing this in haste creates such a jam.
Nancy Stewart
11:18 am on Monday, June 25, 2012
My son Who is Diabetic and kicked of our insurance needs OBAMA Care and many more who do not have there head in the sand.
American Patriot
12:25 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012
@Nancy I could not agree more. The one thing we need is a high risk pool for the people who are not insurable. They would still need to pay premiums but they would receive the coverage they are paying for. Most of us could easily go bankrupt for a medical condition that the we have no control of if you could not buy insurance. That is not in any ones best interests.
This is one area I think the Fed's may have a roll. There are some risks that are too big for individual companies to underwrite and they could issue universal guidelines throughout the country. The PCIP plan that is in place now I think would be a good model. I for one hope this stays.
Susan
3:54 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012
So you got yours and heck with the rest-NO. That is not what America is. Your insurance rates will soon be so high that the average wage earner won't be able to afford it. If you lose a job, most can't afford Cobra. If you get a medical condition-most over 60, it will end up being more than half your monthly budget. If you get Cancer-many will lose their houses for treatment cost. Can you imagine an America where you work your whole life just to lose your house because of medical treatments. We are their-that's why the other 90% of the democratic nations think we are primative. The Baby boomers better think twice about this-they can't afford not too!
William Miller
11:04 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2012
For all of GW Bush's faults, the present dilemna with the economy isn't squarely on his shoulders. The something for little or nothing mentality of a large portion of our populace is the real culprit here. GW Bush tried to warn that the housing bubble was a serious problem. So much artificially created demand caused housing prices to jump. When the bubble burst it was because of the Fannie Mae/ Freddie Mac fiasco that we were warned about, and so many on the coat tails of Barney Frank went out of their way to convince all of us otherwise. The Media is partly to blame for all of this as well, for NOT covering without bias. GW Bush ticked me off on several fronts, with his Patriot Act crap, and a couple of other anti freedom, big brother policies, but this problem we have now isn't really his legacy for us.
Oh and one more thing. How many of us works for a poor man or woman? Take away even more from them, and your kissing any raise goodbye. Think people, just think.
Tammy Osier
11:32 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Well stated Mr. Miller. It's more convenient to blame Bush when if people would take the blinders off their eyes, they'd have to note the 5% unemployment that we had under him for the first two years (even with a war going on). Most of the Republicans were rinos - amazing that he managed that.
They don't want to give any blame at all to the democrat house and senate that was in power two years later when this bubble happened. Bush did warn them; he did try to stop it, yet the current administration continually (and immaturely in my opinion) blames him.
Did he make mistakes? Sure did. Did I agree with everything? No. But all in all, Obama owns this one. The recession was almost over in 2010, and would have ridden itself out had he not started wpening like a drunken sailor and gotten this mandate that forces people to pay what they don't have. IMHO.
William Miller
2:17 pm on Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Well if massive spending by the Fed will get us out of this mess....... Yeah give them a blank check, let them hire all of the unemployed we have right now. Let's all pass the buck down the line for our children and grand children to pay for. We can print and borrow every penny we need to sustain that....... RIGHT!!!!!!. Wrong, the Private sector is what drives our economy. It is the wages earned versus the dollars available that sets the value of our currency. Supply and demand. We are too heavy in the Govco spending versus wealth earned and generated now. We are beyond the healthy ratio of government spending and GDP. We need less Government and less spending to get out of this mess. Unless, and this is what it really boils down to. UNLESS we become a Socialist economy, where we are all poor and begging, while the upper echelon get everything at all of our expense. Socialist ideals thwart a Capitalist economy, in growth and in health.