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June 24th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
At the heart of the decision facing the Republican-leaning court – which must
hand down its ruling before Thursday – is the question of whether it is
constitutional for the US government to “mandate” that every
American buy health insurance.
In the two years since the ACA was passed by Congress, Republicans have
campaigned against the law, holding it up as an example of the Obama
administration’s penchant for “big government” which they despise.
Democrats have argued that the “mandate” is essential to providing
health care to 32 million currently insured Americans and providing
subsidies that will allow children to remain on their parents’ policies
longer and stop insurance companies denying coverage to patients with
pre-existing conditions.
The outcome of Supreme Court decisions are notoriously difficult to predict,
however a poll of former Supreme Court clerks and lawyers found that 57 per
cent thought the ACA would be adjudged anti-constitutional after listening
to oral arguments on the case last March.
If the “mandate” is struck down, Republicans are expected to seize
on the decision as vindication of their campaign against the law which is
opposed by 56 per cent of Americans, according to a newly released poll by
Reuters/Ipsos.
Figures also show that 73 per cent of the independent swing-voters are also
opposed to the Affordable Care Act.
Delivering the Republican party’s weekly message, Bill Cassidy, a doctor and
Louisiana Congressman described the Affordable Care Act as “the wrong
medicine” for America’s out-of-control health care costs which have
spiralled to more than $2.6 trillion a year, a tenfold increase since 1980.
“Unless the Court throws out the entire law, we should repeal what is
left and implement common-sense, step-by-step reforms that protect
Americans’ access to the care they need, from the doctor they choose, at the
lowest cost,” he said.
Officially
the Obama White House has put a brave face on the decision, saying
they expect the court to uphold the law, while officials have privately
pledged that even if the ACA mandate is ruled unconstitutional, the
President will fight for a revised law if he wins a second term.
However Democrat strategists accept that if the law is struck down it will
represent a blow, handing a weapon to Republican opponent Mitt Romney, who
has already vowed to repeal the law, or whatever is left of it after the
Supreme Court decision.
Mr Romney is himself vulnerable to attack over healthcare since Democrats say
that the Obama legislation is modeled on a 2006 healthcare bill that Mr
Romney signed into law while governor of Massachusetts that included an
individual mandate clause.
“But this is still Obama’s signature legislation,” Matt Bennett, a former
Clinton and Gore staffer at the left-leaning Third Way think-tank told The
Telegraph, “If it is struck down, then Romney will be able to say ‘now that
Obamacare is gone, what has the president actually achieved?’”
“And even if the court just strikes down the mandate and upholds the rest of
the law, there will be a lot of squabbling over what the ruling means by the
cognoscenti, but Romney will make the argument – rightly or wrongly – that
it’s dead, and the Republicans have won.”
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