Should the health care law be overturned?

Posted by Chamber Grassroots on April 10th at 11:20am

Earlier this week, the Washington Times editorial page commented on the White House’s reactions to the Supreme Court hearing on the Constitutionality of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Though deficits projects associated with the "Affordable Care Act" continue to rise, and devastating effects of the law are increasingly uncovered, the Washington Times highlighted the President saying that:

“I’m confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress,” he said.

Moreover, Mr. Obama argued that nullifying Obamacare would amount to “judicial activism,” whereby “unelected” judges trump the will of legislative representatives…


The Washington Times continued to explain:

Contrary to Mr. Obama’s spin, the Affordable Care Act was jammed through Congress. It passed the House by a narrow vote of 219-212, even though the Democrats had an overwhelming majority of 75 seats. In the Senate, it barely crossed the 60-vote threshold to avoid a filibuster and passed without a single Republican vote. The law was deeply unpopular with the electorate. Obama Democrats desperately rushed it through Congress, abusing parliamentary procedures and bribing key members of the Senate. It is today even less popular with voters. No one - including Mr. Obama - bothered to read the 2,700-page monstrosity before putting it into law.


With its laundry list of shortcomings and broken promises, it’s not hard to believe why the Supreme Court is taking careful consideration of the bill’s legitimacy.

It would not be “unprecedented” or “extraordinary” if the Supreme Court overturns Obamacare. For more than 200 years, the high court has struck down countless laws passed by Congress or state legislatures, many of them with much stronger majorities than the Affordable Care Act.


Read the full editorial here and vote below.

In the wake of evidence provided at the Supreme Court hearings against the 2010 health care overhaul, do you believe think we should keep the bill as is or start from scratch?

Should the health care law be overturned?


8 Comments

Yes, Obamacare should be overturned. But, unfortunately, it won't be. The Supreme Court will come down on the administration's side. I want to be wrong, but again, the SC doesn't have the backbone to overturn; it's beyond judicial, it's political. According to some reports, the Court does not realize how far-reaching this law was designed to be. EVERYONE will be affected, directly or indirectly, in some way. Discoveries are being made daily re: one negative or another of the law. Why do we need 2600 pages of rules to cover under 30 million people? The hundreds of millions of others HAVE TO contribute to pay for its' huge costs. A plan can surely be created to help those in need without FORCING all to be insured. Taxes> We can't forget Pelosi's words on national radio on 10/21/09 when asked about paying for it. Her exact words: "A VAT is on the table." A VAT. A tax liberals drool over. A blank check. So, healthcare isn't about health; it's about sweeping power and control of 1/6 of the economy. We're bankrupt and Obama needs $$. I only wish the five SC justices,would see this, and vote to overturh.

By Biii Simpson

April 13th at 9:58am in Should the health care law be overturned?

While the Affordable Health Care law leaves much to be desired, it does introduce some corrections to defects in the health care system of our country. Among several humanitarian features, it allows children with preconditions to obtain health insurance, a provision that after 2014 will be extended to benefit people of all ages. It helps to close the doughnut hole. It allows children up to age 26 to be covered under their parents' health care coverage.

What the Affordable Health Care Law does not do is provide universal, single payer health care coverage. The United States is the only industrialized, free world nation that does not have such a plan in place for its citizens. As a result we have millions of Americans who cannot obtain health care coverage and millions more who are excluded because of unaffordability or preconditions. The United States has the distinction of having the highest cost of health care among free world countries while ranking far below the top in positive health care outcomes in treatment and common healthcare delivery.
A reasonable, humanitarian and cost saving alternative to the present law is a universal, single payer program. As a nation of people who care for one another it is unthinkable to propose that Social Security, Medicare and a universal affordable health care plan should be renounced. There is wealth and resources enough in our great country to support these programs for common, ordinary Americans. Decency dictates that they should have the same security and support in their need as are enjoyed without great sacrifice by their wealthier fellow citizens.

By Vernon Naffier

April 12th at 10:19am in Should the health care law be overturned?

The question of, should the health care law, be overturned is actually an oxymoron.It was actually never really honestly ever legaly passed. It was actually passed using coercion, threats,and plain lies and mistruths. It is a shameful sham.

By Joseph E Illian

April 11th at 3:44pm in Should the health care law be overturned?

Obamacare should be overturned for the many reasons stated, chiefly, from the Court's perspective, because it forces people to buy a private product so they can be regulated.. But it should not exist because it is another entitlement, patterned after the two, Medicare and Social Security, which are bordering upon insolvency, and threatening to take the country down with them. When both were introduced they were touted as reducing spending and the deficit. Obviously, just the opposite occurred. Recent accounting reports that Obamacare is headed in exactly the same direction.

By Dennis Santillo

April 11th at 12:03pm in Should the health care law be overturned?

Absolutely! It's an oxymoron to call the bill the 'Affordable' Care Act when it's anything BUT affordable. For the likes of John Totten and others, whenever power is concentrated into a central entity as obamacare would become, it's a 'monopoly' and anyone with enough sense can understand that competition is therefore 'dead' and the costs can and will rise. Nothing is free and with an ever expanding cancer like obamacare it will only INCREASE the expenditures across the board with anything so foolish as a so-called 'single-payer' option. The government which has yet to create successful and 'accountable' programs should not be in charge of an unconstitutional mandate of imposing deficient health care. We will get rationing, just as it has proven itself in all nations this socialized medicine has been implemented and it reduces overall care and raises costs. Not good medicine.
The Chamber is right to take on the absurd obamacare. If it's SO good John Totten, then why are over 2000 organizations been allowed to opt-out? The very same groups that advocated such nonsense; plus the fact that 'government' employees are on a 'Cadillac' program of choices that we, under obamacare would NOT have access to.
We're experiencing the very rationalizing of our care under one of the 'models' of obamacare right now with Group Health. It's NOT the road to get on and emulate; we need competition, HSA's, insurance across state lines, catastrophic care options, get government OUT of health care to start.
OVERTURN Un-Constitutional Obamacare NOW!

By Ed Stephens

April 11th at 10:13am in Should the health care law be overturned?

It is not only the cost to maintain this Obomacare Health program, it is the entirety of all the additional programs inside the Health Care program which will allow the Federal Government and our President to own our lives, and own every business in our Country including the Banks and our monies that we will need for retirement and to pay for our Healthcare when appointed Government employees tell us whether we can go to a Doctor
or we must die because they are going to say we aren't giving anything to the society of our Country. This Healthcare program will if continued, will make this great country a Third World Country run by a President no better than Mr. Castro himself, except he will give the poor people he say's are abused by us more than we have given them all there lives. He will also give all Illegal Alien everything for free of which we must pay for also.
Please my fellow Americans please look deep into this program as there is so many bad items, that do not pertain to Healthcare, But to own us, and we will have no more freedom, that our Fore Fathers provided for us in our constitution. Wake up America
before it is to late.

By Hank Simpson

April 11th at 9:36am in Should the health care law be overturned?

The only people voting to overturn the law stand in good company. The company of Justice Scalia who, like them, has never read the law.
When broken down to it's pertinent parts, the individual parts poll well above 70% with the American people in their desire to keep them.
The Chamber is concerned with the rising costs in relation to the business owners. Single Payer would solve that and put American businesses on a level playing field with our foreign competitors.
Why do we have an employer funded system? It certainly wasn't an altruistic concern for the employees. Businesses, looking for employees, enticed future employees with the availability and costs of Health Care as inducements to take a job with employer 'A' over employer 'B'.
When I first went to work at Aeronca in 1966, my Health Care Plan (Family) was entirely paid for by the company. So was my Pension Plan. 100% by the company on both. Aeronca was in competition with Armco and the 5 paper mills in town for qualified workers. Wages were essentially equal. The deciding factor, in many cases, was the Health Care Plan offered by the companies. Aeronca and Armco had the best ones. GUESS who got the most applications.
If the Chamber were really interested in reducing costs for employers and took even a modicum of responsibility to the employees that insure the success of their members, the Chamber would get behind Single Payer and relieve employers of these costs altogether.
There will be another labor shortage in the future. It's as cyclical as anything else in business. That's when employers make concessions to entice workers. That's how the Employer based system came to be.

By John Totten

April 11th at 9:26am in Should the health care law be overturned?

ObamaCare absolutely should be overturned. It is to expensive and will lead to higher costs to employers and huge federal budget deficits. Never mind that it is unconstitutional. If allowed to stand, there are no limits to what the government can force citizens to buy.

By Tony Warren

April 11th at 8:42am in Should the health care law be overturned?

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