As someone who pays nearly $700 a month for catastrophic health insurance that is little more than extortion, I can hardly conceal my joy to keep the old system. No need to fix something that makes so few people so rich.

Holy shiite! A federal judge who believes that the Constitution says what the Constitution says and that the federal government can't do any damn thing it pleases. What's next, a recognition of freedom OF religion instead of freedom FROM religion whih seems to have been the trend over the last thirty years or more.

Have an Evil day

$700 a month for only catastrophic coverage? Martha, either you have some underlying medical condition that makes you nearly uninsurable, or you are a complete moron.

I choose ALL OF THE ABOVE!

I can hardly conceal my joy to keep the old system. No need to fix something that makes so few people so rich.

Like rich Democrats.

For a family of how many with how many underlying medical conditions?

Be careful with your request. “Mahatma” and “medical condition” are mutually inclusive. John's server may max out with a massive overload from Asshatma.

Are you 85? Are you HIV positive? Or are you lying out your ass?

We call all only hope that you suffer a “catastrophic illness” and get to use that coverage (if it indeed exists at all) soon, Martha.

Yes folks, that was harsh. But Martha here deserves pretty much whatever he gets from us and as a known troll the normal rules of decency simply do not apply to him. I would never dream of saying something like that to a legitimate member of the forum.

TR

Key words you said.
YOU are paying for YOUR health insurance.
I am not paying for yours.
I never once heard anyone from the left cry for insurance reform.
And I have yet to see anything in obamacare addressing insurance reform.
And before you cry “your paying for medicare/medicaid”
Yes don't remind me I am paying through my wages for government services that are going bankrupt and deny payments for services received at a higher rate than any insurance company.
In fact I have yet to hear of anything from obamacare that is supposed to promote better quality of care from healthcare providers.
The only things i have heard and read about it are higher taxes so politicians can determine what care someone receives.

“can only all hope” that is.
The program will not let me edit posts for some reason as I cannot enter text after I log in. Odd.

TR

Thought that was pretty obvious >.>
I also figured by saying “he pays” actually means his parents pay.

WOW! A federal judge that isn't just a stooge for the White House! That's one in a million.
Now if only Judge Hudson could replace puppet Judge Bolton in the Arizona immigration reform law case, maybe that case could get some REAL justice .

Yep – agreed, it's far better that our legislative elites make themselves rich, than for any GreedyCorporateLooter™ to get rich.

/sarc

I just love how the purveyors of perpetual victimhood resort to the old, rather hackneyed meme that it's private sector people who're the rich, greedy bastards. Our Congress is full of millionaires, whose interests are nowhere near close to the interests of a majority of the people they govern. But since 8 of the richest 10, and 13 of the richest 20 are Demmicans, and the Demmican party is now as large a recipient of Wall Street largess as are the Republicrats, we don't talk about that much. Sshh. No, it's much better that we hide behind the trusty old Democrat/Republican schism and sling verbal barbs back and forth while both the corporations and the government loot damn well what they please from us, usually with the permission of our judiciary.

“Look, over there – a corporate fat cat's getting rich. Get him boys! String him up like a side of beef!” That's the kind of partisan crapola we get from people like Alan Grayson, who in 2008 reported $31.24 MM in assets. A real man of the people, right?

In a just, sane world, the Government Health Insurance Takeover Act would never survive the slightest judicial review – but then, neither should have Roe v Wade or the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform travesty. We don't live in a just world.

Well, he could be just lying through his teeth, too.

Always a possibility with this one, CT!

The Federal government has absolutely no authority to force people to buy anything.

Will Obama deploy the National Guard to force people to sign up for insurance at gunpoint when Virginia finds Obamacare unconstitutional? That's his next and only step.

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Jimmy, this is a political discussion board. Not a place to hawk your wares as it were.

Nixon has had cancer and doesn't pay much more than that. Personally, Nixon thinks you are lying.

Best News…

There is no severability clause in Obamacare that would provide for the remainder of the bill to stand if parts are declared unconstitutional.

If one part is declared unconstitutional, the entire bill is unconstitutional.

To summarize:

American people: 1
Obama and the rich elite: 0

This is far from over. Let's hope more judges rely on the Constitution for future rulings.

I hope that analysis holds true. I saw a segment with Judge Andrew Napolatino (S/P?) yesterday where his analysis was just the opposite. He said that while the requirement for everyone to buy health insurance could be over turned or declared unconstitutional, the rest of the law would remain in tact.

I think Napolatino is right on that, but I also think the mechanics of Obamacare depend on the Insurance Mandate to such a degree that the Dems would HAVE to go back to the drawing board if the mandate was overturned. The balance they struck w/ the insurance industry was that they would have to insure people with pre-existing conditions, but to make up for the losses that would cause, the govt. was going to force everyone to buy insurance. Take out the 2nd part of that equation and the insurance companies go insolvent in about a week once they have to start paying for treatments for millions of customers with pre-existing conditions. While plenty of Dems would love nothing more than to see the insurance companies go broke so they can implement a true government-run healthcare system… they don't want to appear to have caused it by incompetence. So I think if the courts strike down the Mandate, there will be a domino effect that results in most (not all) of the teeth being removed from Obamacare.

If he/she/it has an individual policy and is over 50, $700 a month for a shitty policy isn't so unfathomable, or at least it wouldn't be around here. Of course, that policy is only shitty until you get cancer and need $300K worth of medical treatments.

I'm relatively young and healthy and pay almost $400 per month for a family policy w/ a $4000 deductible and no frills like doctor visits. … my old Blue Cross plan w/ a $500 deductible and all the bells and whistles would have easily been close to $700 by now if I hadn't dumped it about 4 years ago.

Insurance is expensive, especially if you buy your own and are older.

I believe it is the latter…