Trump Praises Judge Ruling Against Obamacare: 'Great News for America!'

[DonViejo]

Source: Mediaite



by Tamar Auber | Dec 14th, 2018, 9:46 pm

On Friday night, President Donald Trump celebrated a Texas judge’s ruling putting Obamacare at risk by declaring it “great news.”

“Wow, but not surprisingly, ObamaCare was just ruled UNCONSTITUTIONAL by a highly respected judge in Texas. Great news for America!” Trump tweeted out.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

The tweets are in response to U.S. District Court Judge Reed O’Connor, a George W. Bush appointee, ruling Obamacare must be nixed because the penalty for not being insured was removed by Congress.

The move now threatens 20 million who rely on its coverage. The judge’s ruling will also be immediately appealed.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-praises-judge-ruling-against-obamacare-great-news-for-america/

[Maeve]

1. And you people who depend on it--SUFFER!!!! eom

[olegramps]

14. Could this provide the impetus for universal health care? Truely ironic if this become the key.

Trump claimed that he supported universal affordable care for every citizen. This would be a perfect time to aware him with his promise.

[Maeve]

17. Possible, but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for him to do the right thing.

Not unless he's figured some way to use it to put money in his pocket

[workinclasszero]

19. Single payer/Medicare for all/universal healthcare

C'mon down!!

[Perseus]

2. I want the next person who interviews the orange idiot to ask him for specifics

Please explain how the ACA is a disaster?
Can you explain why this ruling, with specifics, is such a great decision?
Can you explain, in detail, what people will need to do now that this judge has made that ruling, how it affects them?
Why is the ACA unconstitutional?

Just 4 questions, which I am sure it is too much for the idiot to answer, but pin him to the wall, don't let him get away with his 5-year-old talk, great, disaster, etc...They ask him questions and he always responds like a child, no substance or facts, and people let him get away with it.

[progree]

10. And compare to the Republican alternatives - AHCA (House) and BRCA (Senate) -

that were presented in 2017 which were mind-blowingly horrible. (The AHCA actually passed in the House).

[packman]

21. Let me answer your 4 questions

Please explain how the ACA is a disaster?
Because it was at a black man's doing - Obama

Can you explain why this ruling, with specifics, is such a great decision?
Because it supports my first answer - It kicks Obama in the teeth and makes my base happy


Can you explain, in detail, what people will need to do now that this judge has made that ruling, how it affects them?
Not my problem -

Why is the ACA unconstitutional
Because it makes sense - Nowhere in the Constitution does it say Obamacare for all

[Wrz]

3. This scares the hell out of me

Not the tweet.. but the ruling. I have an overwhelming fear that the SCOTUS will affirm the ruling.

I am currently on Medicaid and I only qualify for it under the expansion rules. I have a rare disease that requires using a $40k a MONTH orphan drug to treat - that only Medicaid MCOs in my state are willing to pay for. Simply put, if I lose coverage I am dead within a year.

I applied for SSI when Trump was selected -- literally the next business day I filled out an application and hired a disability attorney (they only get paid if you win - so you can still hire one even if you have zero income like I do). I, like many others, thought the ACA would be repealed not long after his 'inauguration' so I took pre-emptive action by trying to get on SSI so that I would 1. be immune from work requirements for SNAP and 2. qualify for Medicaid under pre-ACA rules.

I had my SSI hearing before a judge a few weeks ago. It sounded like things are going to go my way but I won't know until I get the judge's ruling in the mail. If and only if I get SSI I would be able to stay on Medicaid if the expansion went away.

I hope this nonsense costs the Republicans dearly. I truly want it to derail the GOP for many decades if not permanently. The only way we have even a CHANCE of getting single payer is if Democrats can get 2/3 control of the Senate. I don't see it happening without that.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. I am scared, too. I hope SSI works out for you!

*hug*

[liberal from boston]

6. Obamacare

Suggest you click on links below--2 rulings on Obamacare that were upheld & declared constitutional.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/obamacare-survives-supreme-court-challenge/2015/06/25/af87608e-188a-11e5-93b7-5eddc056ad8a_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.477965a67353



https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/us/supreme-court-lets-health-law-largely-stand.html

[The Mouth]

8. The problem is, from the analysis I just read

is that SCOTUS ruled the ACA constitutional on the basis of Congress's taxing power. Since there is no longer a tax penalty for not having insurance, the whole thing is supposedly unconstitutional.

Do the Republicans really hate the poor so much that they are willing to fuck themselves just to fuck the poor? Seems like it. Talk about a fucking lose/lose

[mahina]

36. Wow.

1. Hugs!
2. Check Kaotikross’s post below
3. Hugs again

With you.

Aloha

[LBM20]

5. And you and your party are FUCKED in 2020! Out of office and to JAIL for you.

[liberal from boston]

9. Trump

Trump will not be around in 2020--he will either resign or not win re-election. Mueller has so much dirt on him & his family. Interesting to read that Russia is going to release all of the corrupt GOP who received money.

[mahina]

35. Can you please expand on your last sentence?

Thanks very much!

[kaotikross]

7. Everybody..relax.

The individual mandate wasn't repealed, they couldn't get that done at 60 votes so they just lowered the tax penalty to $0 which only required 51 votes. That means this Judges ruling will lose on appeal. Even if it doesn't, Chief Justice Roberts has already ruled that the ACA is Constitutional. Do you think he'll overturn his own ruling after setting the precedent so some moron in Texas can rewrite the law of an entire Country? Not gonna happen. i suspect this Judge is just hoping for either a trump appointment or is soon up for re-election in texas and is pandering to the repub base. At any rate, relax. This dog don't hunt. Not that we shouldn't use this for as much poltical milegae as possible, by all means, we should...but for everybody scared right now I figured I'd clue you in: it's gonna be okay.

[Traildogbob]

22. 😱😡😤☹️😕🤔😌

Thank you for this soothing explanation. Not a lot of positivity around these days. Need to grab hold of any when it presents itself.

[liberal from boston]

34. Obamacare

I agree kaotikross.

Click on link & read that Supreme Court ruled twice that Obamacare is Constitutional:

https://slate.com/business/2018/12/obamacare-mandate-affordable-care-act-ruling.html

[Jarqui]

11. Annually, one out of every thousand people who lose healthcare will die

If 30 million lose it, that's effectively one 9/11 of dead Americans every year until they fix it.

The judge not allowing a stay until they get something else figured out was unconscionable - basically, genocide against vulnerable Americans.

The Republican mentality of governance needs to be exterminated - to save lives.

[duforsure]

12. Causing millions more to lose their health care

Then saying its great for America is sick. trump and the gop don't want anyone to have health care, except those trash can policies they promote that the people find out when needed they're worthless. Remember his claim he's have better, lower costing for everyone health plan, but 40-50 million at least will lose their plans. He's a liar , and the gop are too.

[gilligan]

13. Say what?

Unconstitutional? You don't even know what that means!

[King_Klonopin]

15. He claims that it is unconstitutional to have a mandate that all have insurance, BUT

demanding that people work a minimum of amount of hours
in order to qualify for SNAP and SSI, that is perfectly fine!

Any excuse to fuck over poor people.

[King_Klonopin]

16. Here's an AP article on the "judge"

U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor, who ruled the Affordable Care Act “invalid” Friday, is no stranger to the conservative resistance to Obama administration policies.

O’Connor, 53, is a former state and federal prosecutor who was nominated to the federal bench in 2007 by President George W. Bush. He has been active in the Federalist Society, which describes itself as “a group of conservatives and libertarians interested in the current state of the legal order.”


[link:https://www.apnews.com/1abb43e2554240418ba041c40f7176a1

[trev]

32. In other words

he is anti-democracy.

Typical.

[DallasNE]

18. George W. Bush

Lied us into war in Iraq and he lied about only appointing strict constructionist as judges, as this ruling clearly shows.

It is in the Republican DNA to lie. It is what they do. And the people suffer. McConnell has now stripped the filibuster in the Senate so it only takes 51 votes to confirm these justices and Trump is taking full advantage by packing the courts assuring this problem will be with us for the next 30 years or more.

[duforsure]

20. trump and the gop lied

And have been lying about the ACA, and doing anything they can to cause premiums to skyrocket, and cut people off of having this plan, yet right before the mid terms claimed the opposite . Now this will hurt the trump supporters and the gop voters the most, and maybe then they'll realize these people are crooks not working for them but the wealthy . They were conned , and now they can see for themselves they were lied to for their vote only.

[Firestorm49]

23. "Great news for America" ??????????????

Maybe the unpopularity elected fool in the White House was asleep, or better, unable to comprehend that health care was the number one issue all throughout America during the mid-term elections. His stupidity is overwhelming.

[JohnnyRingo]

24. The new Congress can submit the same law.....

...and Trump will sign it as the new "TrumpCare". It's about stolen legacy.

[appleannie1943]

25. I am so glad he thinks my husband and I should lose health care we paid for all our adult lives

just because my husband had cancer and I have stents. I should be running around doing a happy dance. Best news I have heard in years. F him.

[keithbvadu2]

26. Dotard said: There is no such thing as ObamaCare anymore (June 2017)

Trump: There is no such thing as ObamaCare anymore (June 2017)

http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/355658-trump-there-is-no-such-thing-as-obamacare-anymore

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141890741 June 2017

[Eliot Rosewater]

27. I hope people understand rump and his deplorables and most of the GOP want harm to come to poor

people especially if they are POC.

they want it, and they will get to do some great harm before this is over

how many du posters lives will be destroyed now?

[BigmanPigman]

31. The GOP are greedy sadistic and truly sick monsters

who want to bankrupt and kill ill Americans. After hundreds of phone call over the past 3 years I was finally feeling that I could relax and know I have healthcare. Now I am back to where I started. I am exhausted from the anxiety and stress on top of several pre-existing conditions. The stress is not good for anyone's health, especially those who are already ill. No wonder the suicide rate in the US is increasing. People can't live like this. It is cruel.

[Eliot Rosewater]

33. The cruelty is what makes the GOP the GOP.

And when their actions harm their supporters, they convince them it is the D's fault and there we go again.

[greatauntoftriplets]

28. Up yours, Spanky!

[Runningdawg]

29. Cult45 is doing the happy dance

They are SOOOO glad Obamacare was found unconstitutional. Who needs that when the ACA will cover your pre-existing conditions?

[chelsea0011]

30. This is what this POS administration considers "good news".