Letters To My Country

August 20, 2013

"A lot of Republicans seem to believe that if they can gum up the works and make this law fail, they’ll somehow be sticking it to me. But they’d just be sticking it to you."

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President Obama, Saturday

“On the unstoppability of Obamacare: We have this system in which Congress passes laws, the president signs them, and then they go into effect. The Affordable Care Act went through this process, and there is no legitimate way for Republicans to stop it.” - Paul Krugman

(via liberalsarecool)

LTMC: The fly in the ointment here is that they don’t need the legislative process. The Supreme Court’s decision in NFIB v. Sebelius held that the enforcement provision of the Medicaid expansion law was unconstitutional, which means states can literally just opt out of the Medicaid expansion portion of the law. Some states are also doing everything they can do stop the healthcare exchanges from going up, which is part of the reason why the administration keeps delaying the implementation of the law.

That’s the funny thing about dual-sovereignty: when you’ve got more than one cook in the kitchen, the meals don’t always come together nice and neat. If anyone thinks NFIB v. Sebelius was the last piece of litigation related to the ACA, I imagine they’ll probably be unpleasantly surprised in the future. This one’s getting dragged out to the last man.

(via liberalsarecool)

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