{"id":13045,"date":"2012-04-01T20:38:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T00:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=13045"},"modified":"2012-04-01T20:38:44","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T00:38:44","slug":"the-next-battle-in-the-healthcare-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=13045","title":{"rendered":"The Next Battle In The Healthcare War"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, Matt Sheffield posted an article at CNS News<\/a>\u00a0about the next step in the war over Obamacare. Although it is not at all a sure thing, there are many people who feel that the Supreme Court will strike down the law as unconstitutional because it requires all Americans to purchase a product whether they want to or not. Mr. Sheffield points out that the left is already preparing for the next battle. He cites some recent statements by left-leaning pundits:<\/p>\n

If the Supreme Court strikes down the individual mandate in Obamacare, the result will be higher insurance premiums and, “we’ll just blame Republicans for it,” says Democratic strategist Bob Beckel, appearing on the Wednesday edition of Fox News’\u00a0The Five<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…Andrew Koppelman,\u00a0writing in Salon today<\/a>, asserted that the arguments against the individual mandate amount to nothing more than “silliness,” and said the “silly” arguments “nonetheless seemed to sometimes move Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito.”<\/strong><\/div>\n
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…Steven Rosenfeld,\u00a0writing at AlterNet<\/a>, says Republicans “don\u2019t want to fix our broken healthcare system.” He writes: “The Republican Party again showed its petulant, “party-of-no” face on Tuesday as lawyers representing 26 red states and conservative think-tanks told the U.S. Supreme Court that nobody should be forced have health insurance\u2014even if people carrying insurance end up subsidizing the defiantly uninsured who get ill.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Supreme Court is expected to release its decision sometime in June or July. Prepare for healthcare to be a major issue during the 2012 election. Be ready to listen carefully as very little of what you hear may actually be true.<\/div>\n
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