Thursday, June 28, 2012

A Great Day for Tommy and Mitt!!!

Today, the Supreme Court upheld most of the provisions of  "Obamacare".  While some on the riight are upset, this is a big day for two of the more prominent politicians on the right.

First off republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.  President Obama's signature healthcare legislation(Obamacare) is modeled after the very successful Romneycare in Massachusetts that was really Mitt Romney's only professional success. 

In her opinion of the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act on Thursday, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made note of Mitt Romney's Massachusetts health care law as a reason why the individual mandate was constitutional.

While Ginsburg was a part of the majority opinion, she had differing reasons as to why the mandate was constitutional. The rest of the justices found that under the Commerce Clause, the mandate requiring all U.S. citizens to buy health insurance was not valid. They upheld it as a tax.

Ginsburg, however, said it should have been upheld under the Commerce Clause, and explained how Congress followed Massachusetts' lead in preventing only sick people from signing up for health insurance:



Secondly, this is also good news for republican Senate hopeful Tommy G Thompson, who has long supported the individual mandate and has had nothing but good things to say about Romneycare.  


Good job guys the Supreme Court just re-affirmed your signature accomplishment!

Here is President Obama  sharing the good news with Mitt and Tommy:



5 comments:

  1. The “Obamacare tax” by the numbers:

    $700: Amount individuals will have to pay on their federal taxes if they don’t have health insurance.

    $972: Amount state employees have to pay each year for an individual policy.

    $1212: Amount you have to pay on your Massachusetts income tax as an individual if you don’t have health insurance.

    Now let’s try it for families.

    $1400: Amount a married couple pays on federal taxes if neither has health insurance.

    $2412: Amount that state employees pay for couple/family coverage.

    $2424: Amount that a married couple pays under Romneycare.

    Yeah, I’m pretty sure the freeloaders who don’t want health insurance will be just fine.

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    1. Those numbers seem alright to me, even on the high end for RomneyCare, $202 a month is still less than anything I've come across on the free market.

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  2. Barack Obama what a liar. Never to be trusted to tell the truth. LIAR plain and simple, what a disgrace.

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