Obamacare faces a death panel on Tuesday
Obamacare faces a death panel on Tuesday
Thousands of lives and the rule of law hang in the balance.
IAN MILLHISER at Think Progress
https://thinkprogress.org/obamacare-texas-vs-united-states-b8f45b1bbd10/
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A conservative panel of an especially conservative federal appeals court will hear a case on Tuesday brought by Republican officials who seek to repeal the Affordable Care Act in its entirety. The case is Texas v. United States.
Last year, a Republican judge with a long history of striking down Democratic policies on spurious legal reasoning handed down an order saying that Obamacare must cease to exist. If this decision is ultimately affirmed by higher courts, an estimated 19.9 million Americans will lose health coverage.
A study examining the impact of Massachusetts’ Obamacare-like reforms in 2006, moreover, estimated that “for every 830 adults gaining insurance coverage there was one fewer deaths per year.” If this formula is applied to the impact of a court decision repealing Obamacare, such a decision will kill approximately 24,000 people a year. Every year. For as long as that decision remains undisturbed.
The death panel considering whether to sentence tens of thousands of innocents to die includes three judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit — two of whom were appointed by Republican presidents. Judge Jennifer Elrod is a George W. Bush appointee known for her decisions limiting voting rights, striking down liberal immigration policies, and undercutting the right to an abortion. Judge Kurt Engelhardt is a Trump appointee — though, in fairness, he’s also less a bomb thrower than some of the more flamboyant conservative activists President Donald Trump appointed to the Fifth Circuit.
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It seems like the GOP's harmful, crazy actions won't ever stop coming at us. We are living in strange times.
