How the Supreme Court Rose Above Partisan Politics

[Crabtownboy]

The court is not there to play politics.

In the end, by upholding the health care law, Chief Justice John Roberts acted like an umpire. That was the image he offered the nation at his confirmation hearing in 2005. His job as judge, he said, was to “call balls and strikes, and not to pitch or bat.” On Thursday he did that.

There were many winners in the ruling — including President Barack Obama, Congress, the Democratic Party and millions of people who rely on the new law for health care. But there was also one more: the idea that the Supreme Court can be more than a political body.

Read more: http://ideas.time.com/2012/06/28/how-the-supreme-court-rose-above-partisan-politics/#ixzz1z80Gzyjg

http://ideas.time.com/2012/06/28/how-the-supreme-court-rose-above-partisan-politics/

 

[SolaSaint]

What about they guy who cannot afford health care and Obama penalizes (taxes) him for it? I guess he is a loser. Plus he will be poorer.

 

[Crabtownboy]

What about they guy who cannot afford health care and Obama penalizes (taxes) him for it? I guess he is a loser. Plus he will be poorer.

Different topic. This one is about the Supreme Court interpreting law and not playing politics.

 

[mandym]

What about they guy who cannot afford health care and Obama penalizes (taxes) him for it? I guess he is a loser. Plus he will be poorer.

Obama doesn't care.

 

[Crabtownboy]

What about they guy who cannot afford health care and Obama penalizes (taxes) him for it? I guess he is a loser. Plus he will be poorer.

If he cannot afford healthcare under this law he cannot afford it now.

Why are you not concerned about people who will be covered who cannot afford healthcare now?

 

[mandym]

Why are you not concerned about people who will be covered who cannot afford healthcare now?

I have been one of those people more than once in my like. But I do not look to the rest of the country to make sure I can. The principle of the founding of this country is more important.

But it is obvious that you live in fear and do not trust God for your provision. so instead you trust the government over God.

 

[SolaSaint]

Have you ever seen anyone turned away at a hospital ER?

 

[Robert Snow]

Have you ever seen anyone turned away at a hospital ER?

What about the poor person who goes to the emergency room with a heart condition? Do you think the hospital will give them the medicine or treatment they need if they are not having a heart attack at the moment they are there?

 

[Crabtownboy]

Have you ever seen anyone turned away at a hospital ER?

And did you know the average person paying for healthcare pays over a thousand a year because of uninsured people being taken care of?

WASHINGTON — The average U.S. family and their employers paid an extra $1,017 in health care premiums last year to compensate for the uninsured, according to a study to be released Thursday by an advocacy group for health care consumers.

Families USA, which supports expanded health care coverage, found that about 37% of health care costs for people without insurance — or a total of $42.7 billion — went unpaid last year. That cost eventually was shifted to the insured through higher premiums, according to the group.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/insurance/2009-05-28-hiddentax_N.htm

 

[LadyEagle]

What about the poor person who goes to the emergency room with a heart condition? Do you think the hospital will give them the medicine or treatment they need if they are not having a heart attack at the moment they are there?

They cannot be turned away under current law, it was called the Hill-Burton Act, don't know what it is called now. If the hospital accepts federal funds, i.e., Medicare, Medicaid, etc., they cannot turn a person away for emergency care. That is why over 80 hospitals in California went belly up and out of business, because they were required by law to treat patients without insurance and most were illegal aliens without insurance. The Hill-Burton Act has existed for years. I know, I used to work in an ER in the 1970s.

Oh, here it is on Wikipedia:

Hill-Burton was set to expire in June 1973, but it was extended for one year in the last hour. In 1975, the Act was amended and became Title XVI of the Public Health Service Act. The most significant changes at this point were the addition of some regulatory mechanisms (defining what constitutes the inability to pay) and the move from a 20-year commitment to a requirement to provide free care in perpetuity. Still, it was not until 1979 that compliance levels were defined.

This whole obamacare thing has been blowing smoke about people going to the ER for care and that poor people can't get care. It is a lie.

The same people will continue to go to the ER for care only now there will be MORE people going to the ER for care because of the coming shortage of doctors and long waits.


BACK ON TOPIC: It is my opinion that the SCOTUS played politics. Liberals can jump for joy today. But Justice Roberts may have just handed Mitt Romney the gift that keeps on giving. :thumbs:

 

[billwald]

The problem would be solved if every person had to carry an insurance ID in order to be picked up by an ambulance. No ID, die in the ditch unless a good samaritan volunteers to pick up the bill.

 

[Chessic]

And did you know the average person paying for healthcare pays over a thousand a year because of uninsured people being taken care of?

Your solution is to pay more than double that thousand dollars to the government each year?

 

[Salty]

The court is not there to play politics.

thats right - as one commentator said - popularly elected officials have the right to pass stupid laws- constitutional - but still stupid

 

[billwald]

They sold us out to Wall Street and the International corporations.

 

[freeatlast]

What about they guy who cannot afford health care and Obama penalizes (taxes) him for it? I guess he is a loser. Plus he will be poorer.

The tax is very minimum. Much less then insurance.

 

[freeatlast]

The court is not there to play politics.

I think the writer is reading what happened incorrectly.

 

[Salty]

The tax is very minimum. Much less then insurance.

But why should I have to pay either one?

 

[freeatlast]

But why should I have to pay either one?

Because the American people have sold their constitutional liberties to a Marxist and all the socialists before him for their greed to have free handouts.