BEFORE ACA - what did retirees do?

[Big_Hitter]

well carp my cobra runs out in 18 months

I thought pre-existing conditions were a guaranteed lock?

 

[Dtail]

The Administration had previously requested SCOTUS to slow-track reviewing the case.... from Jan 10, 2020 article:


Seems like they want it... but just not in an election year when people might be paying attention.

"4 more years"
Of course I am referring to the survival of the ACA.

 

[teejayevans]

The Administration had previously requested SCOTUS to slow-track reviewing the case.... from Jan 10, 2020 article:


Seems like they want it... but just not in an election year when people might be paying attention.

Since when does SCOTUS do the will of the Executive branch? I’d tell White House to go pound sand.

 

[GenXguy]

Since when does SCOTUS do the will of the Executive branch? I’d tell White House to go pound sand.

The Jan 10th response was actually based on a deadline the court gave the Trump admin and states opposing the ACA to respond to the democrat led states appeal to the Supreme Court to take up and fast-track the case.

https://thehill.com/regulation/cour...iday-deadline-for-responses-in-obamacare-case

Jan 21 - SCOTUS declined to expedite hearing the case.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/21/politics/supreme-court-obamacare-challenge-denial/index.html

Jan 29 - "the Fifth Circuit declined to rehear the case en banc in a narrow 8-6 vote."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/29/politics/5th-circuit-en-banc-affordable-care-act/index.html

Feb 3 - "The Trump administration and Republican-led states told the Supreme Court that it should not step in at this time..."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/03/politics/texas-republicans-trump-obamacare-supreme-court/index.html

Feb 5 - "The U.S. Supreme Court signaled it will use its Feb. 21 private conference to discuss whether to consider the fate of the Affordable Care Act on a fast-track schedule that would mean a decision by the end of June. "

https://www.bloomberglaw.com/document/X581H6QS000000

"Democrats are urging the justices to hold arguments during the last week of April -- the court’s last scheduled week to hear cases -- or during a highly unusual special sitting in May."

Feb 21 - ? ? ?

It takes 5 justices to vote for expediting the case this term.
It takes 4 justices to vote to take the case for review next term.
Otherwise, it continues back down to the district court regarding the severability of the mandate from the other components of the ACA, where it was previously ruled the entire law falls along with the mandate.

 

[reneeh63]

Some people died due to lack of health insurance before the ACA. Some still do.

My mom’s brother died from complications from alcoholism when he was in his early fifties. My aunt remarried not long after. Her husband was older and soon retired. She went uninsured. Then she got colon cancer. Now she was uninsurable. . They paid through nose. Then he died. She had metastatic disease. She was a housewife, and was now too sick to work. Faced with losing a place to live and a poor prognosis, she chose to stop treatment. She died soon after.

Before the ACA, thousands of people in the U.S. died from lack of affordable access to health care. A few studies before the ACA estimated 45,000 people died each year from lack of health insurance.

I am so sorry - what a cruel country when we have such wealth!

 

[razztazz]

I am so sorry - what a cruel country when we have such wealth!

Well by law, tradition, and established protocols the wealth is all privately held. If somebody has it therefore someone else does not have it. The price of things does not follow the same rule. The price is the same for everyone.

 

[teejayevans]

I am so sorry - what a cruel country when we have such wealth!

We? Who’s we?
We have trillion dollar deficit in the budget, trillions of liabilities....someday when the bill comes due it’s going to be ugly.