Thursday, June 28, 2012

When Either Or Becomes Well, Maybe...

Wow! Word is in. The Supreme Court ruled in Favor of Obama's healthcare plan...Well maybe. Before anyone gets their knickers in a knot with excitement let's look at what this really means. The Supreme Court's sole responsibility is to determine whether or not something is constitutional. Period. Either Or. Now what's happened here is that they said, in a 4-5 decision, that the Healthcare Act signed by President Obama is constitutional however, and it's a BIG HOWEVER AND ULTIMATELY A COUP for conservatives, states can opt out. Opt out? REALLY? How come? It's a state's right issue. AGAIN! States can choose not to participate. You see as a federal law ALL states would be obligated to cover everyone in their states but this way, they don't have to. The result? All those red states balking at the VOTER'S RIGHTS ACT will simply not participate. The outcome? You see this plan is predicated on having "x" number of participants in order to make it fiscally viable. With a lot of states opting out the result will be the collapse of this program fiscally. End game? Well, another retro-Republican outcry of how Obama is running the country into the ground. Gee. Compromise much to underhandedly serving the interests of the GOP? Well, YEAH! Givith with one hand and taketh with the other. What was gained here? Nothing but another loophole for State's Rights!

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