Topic: Health Care Reform
Judge Strikes Down ObamaCare
Posted on Jan. 31, 11 | 03:23 PM by Andrew Roth | Topic: Health Care Reform
Breaking news reports are announcing that a Florida judge struck down ObamaCare today. This is great news, but there's one detail that may get overlooked. In rendering his opinion, Judge Roger Vinson said:
That's right. He struck down the entire bill because of the individual mandate. Most bills that pass Congress have a severability clause that allows the untouched portions of a bill to remain intact if a part of it is declared unconstitutional. ObamaCare didn't have such a clause so if a portion of it is deemed unconstitutional, a court can declare the entire bill void, as Vinson did today.
Republicans in Congress are currently trying to get their repeal bill voted on in the Senate. Vulnerable Democrats like Jon Tester and Claire McCaskill might want to use this ruling as their excuse to vote with the Republicans in overturning this hideous law.
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"because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire Act must be declared void."
That's right. He struck down the entire bill because of the individual mandate. Most bills that pass Congress have a severability clause that allows the untouched portions of a bill to remain intact if a part of it is declared unconstitutional. ObamaCare didn't have such a clause so if a portion of it is deemed unconstitutional, a court can declare the entire bill void, as Vinson did today.
Republicans in Congress are currently trying to get their repeal bill voted on in the Senate. Vulnerable Democrats like Jon Tester and Claire McCaskill might want to use this ruling as their excuse to vote with the Republicans in overturning this hideous law.
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House Votes to Repeal ObamaCare
Posted on Jan. 19, 11 | 07:49 PM by Andrew Roth | Topic: Health Care ReformYear After Launching Pledge, Club for Growth Calls on House to Repeal It!
Posted on Jan. 19, 11 | 02:57 PM by Michael Connolly | Topic: Health Care Reform
WASHINGTON – One year after launching its Repeal It pledge, the Club for Growth today called on the U.S. House of Representatives, and especially the 118 representatives who signed the pledge, to vote to repeal ObamaCare.
"This time last year, even before Congress passed its health care takeover bill, the Club for Growth began building an effort to Repeal It,” Club President Chris Chocola said. “Today the House of Representatives – including 118 members who signed the Club’s Repeal It pledge – will take another important step toward that goal.”
“We commend the House Republican leadership for making repeal their top priority,” Chocola added. “And we urge all members to follow their lead toward a future of economic and health care freedom.”
The Club for Growth launched its Repeal It! campaign on January 14, 2010, before ObamaCare passed, to help build public support for undoing the federal health care takeover. In 2010, more than 400 federal lawmakers and candidates signed the Repeal It! pledge, including 17 current U.S. Senators and 118 members of the House of Representatives.
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"This time last year, even before Congress passed its health care takeover bill, the Club for Growth began building an effort to Repeal It,” Club President Chris Chocola said. “Today the House of Representatives – including 118 members who signed the Club’s Repeal It pledge – will take another important step toward that goal.”
“We commend the House Republican leadership for making repeal their top priority,” Chocola added. “And we urge all members to follow their lead toward a future of economic and health care freedom.”
The Club for Growth launched its Repeal It! campaign on January 14, 2010, before ObamaCare passed, to help build public support for undoing the federal health care takeover. In 2010, more than 400 federal lawmakers and candidates signed the Repeal It! pledge, including 17 current U.S. Senators and 118 members of the House of Representatives.
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Milton Friedman on Socialized Medicine
Posted on Jan. 17, 11 | 09:49 AM by Andrew Roth | Topic: Health Care ReformHouse Vote Set for Repeal of ObamaCare
Posted on Jan. 03, 11 | 05:12 PM by Andrew Roth | Topic: Health Care Reform
The POLITICO just broke this news:
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House Republicans will vote next Wednesday, Jan. 12, to repeal the new health care law, making good on a top-tier GOP campaign promise and setting up a showdown with President Barack Obama over his signature domestic policy achievement. The repeal effort is not expected to succeed, given that Democrats maintain control of the Senate and the president can veto the legislation, but Republicans also plan to chip away at pieces of the law over the long term.
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For First Time Ever, Most Voters Think Health Care Repeal Likely
Posted on Dec. 20, 10 | 01:47 PM by Andrew Roth | Topic: Health Care Reform
From Rasmussen Reports:
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For the first time since Democrats in Congress passed the health care bill in March, a majority of U.S. voters believe the measure is likely to be repealed.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 52% of Likely U.S. Voters think it is at least somewhat likely that the health care plan will be repealed. Thirty-three percent (33%) view repeal as unlikely. Those figures include 16% who believe repeal is Very Likely and 5% who believe it is Not at All Likely.
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When You Take Down the Mandate, You Take Down ObamaCare
Posted on Dec. 17, 10 | 01:16 PM by Andrew Roth | Topic: Health Care Reform
When the Supreme Court ultimately rules on the constitutionality of ObamaCare's individual mandate, the nine justices have the opportunity to take down the entire bill. Typically most bills have a severability clause in them that allows for a bad law to stay in effect despite getting portions ripped out of it by the Court. But ObamaCare doesn't have a severability clause in it, so if Chief Justice John Roberts and the majority of justices who rule the mandate unconstitutional so chooses, they can destroy the entire bill.
The great news is that they can use the White House's own words to justify their decision. Here's a recent excerpt from the New York Times:
Kill the mandate, kill the law.
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The great news is that they can use the White House's own words to justify their decision. Here's a recent excerpt from the New York Times:
Though they have battled for more than a year, President Obama and the health insurance industry agree that the requirement for most Americans to obtain insurance, struck down by a federal judge, is absolutely essential to the success of the new health care law.
Without it, they say, the whole package collapses, dashing hopes for universal coverage and cost control. Ripping the mandate from the law would have “devastating consequences,” the White House said Tuesday.
Kill the mandate, kill the law.
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Quote of the Day
Posted on Dec. 14, 10 | 03:29 PM by Andrew Roth | Topic: Health Care Reform
Via the Wall Street Journal's Political Diary:
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"The Supreme Court, as currently constituted, seems unlikely to overturn Judge Hudson's holding on the individual mandate and the tax penalty. Yes, the highest court has gone very far in extending the Commerce Clause over the past seven decades. But even the Supremes have never gone as far as the Obama Justice Department desperately wants it to go. For the court to go that far, it will have to fundamentally break the Constitution, tearing out its strictures on a limited government. Such a ruling would mean the literal end of any limits on the power of Congress, posing the most dangerous political threat to our liberty since our nation's founding" -- Hans von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation on Federal Judge Henry Hudson's ruling that a central portion of ObamaCare is unconstitutional.
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Club for Growth Hails ObamaCare Ruling
Posted on Dec. 13, 10 | 02:11 PM by Michael Connolly | Topic: Health Care Reform
WASHINGTON – The Club for Growth today praised the U.S. District Court ruling today that threw out the unconstitutional individual mandate at the heart of the federal health care law passed earlier this year.
“Congress can no more force Americans to buy health insurance than it could force us to buy their lame arguments in favor of Obamacare in the first place,” said Club President Chris Chocola.
“ObamaCare’s unconstitutional individual mandate violates every tenet of limited government and individual liberty, and is fundamentally incompatible with a free and growing economy,” Chocola added. “Congress should not wait to let the courts overturn ObamaCare, but move forward immediately with legislation to Repeal It.”
The Club for Growth launched its Repeal It! campaign early this year to help build public support for undoing the federal health care takeover. In 2010, more than 400 federal lawmakers and candidates signed the Repeal It! pledge, including more than 40 of the incoming freshman class of congressmen and Senators.
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“Congress can no more force Americans to buy health insurance than it could force us to buy their lame arguments in favor of Obamacare in the first place,” said Club President Chris Chocola.
“ObamaCare’s unconstitutional individual mandate violates every tenet of limited government and individual liberty, and is fundamentally incompatible with a free and growing economy,” Chocola added. “Congress should not wait to let the courts overturn ObamaCare, but move forward immediately with legislation to Repeal It.”
The Club for Growth launched its Repeal It! campaign early this year to help build public support for undoing the federal health care takeover. In 2010, more than 400 federal lawmakers and candidates signed the Repeal It! pledge, including more than 40 of the incoming freshman class of congressmen and Senators.
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Political Turkeys of 2010
Posted on Nov. 29, 10 | 09:11 AM by Andrew Roth | Topic: Health Care ReformCookieGate!
Posted on Nov. 29, 10 | 08:08 AM by Andrew Roth | Topic: Health Care Reform
A staffer on Capitol Hill sent this to me:
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When exiting a meeting about long emergency room waiting times, the head of Alberta’s health service was approached by reporters and asked what he was doing to shorten the waiting lists. The head of the health service responded by saying he couldn’t be disturbed, because he was eating a cookie. No, seriously; watch the exchange yourself.
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