On Wednesday, March 4th the Supreme Court once again addressed the President Barack Obama’s health care reform of, three years after having it’s validation. While Republicans have voted more than fifty times in vain to Congress to remove the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (better known as “Obamacare“), the judges have without a doubt not seen the last of these Republicans and have continually shown repeatedly that they find the legislation constitutional that stands in the balance, hanging by 4 words.
This health care reform makes it possible to federal authorities to grant tax exemptions in states that did not organize the sharing of certain social contributions to make them more accessible contracts. Thirty-four states ruled by the Republicans are in this case. The texts describing Obamacare, however, specify that the mechanisms of this health insurance must all be “established by the state” and the plaintiff’s case of King v. Burwell therefore believe that the federal authorities do not have to replace them through the tax cuts.
If the Supreme Court rules in their favor, about seven million people are likely to lose their health insurance, and the whole system would find itself profoundly destabilized. It would be a stinging setback for President Obama even in the removal of millions of health insurance contracts. Those repercussions aren’t of consequence for the Republicans, especially in view of the senatorial elections in 2016 which could turn to the advantage of the Democrats, less exposed in this renewal that elected the Grand Old Party.
The President made many efforts to promote Obamacare, its reform Medicare but he’s not without a self of humor, where a video on Buzzfeed shows him mocking himself. The video centers on the things that everyone does, but nobody talks about and Barack Obama was with an actor, Andrew Ilnyckyj, holding the role of a member of his cabinet who was preparing for a meeting with the President. So we know now that when alone, the American president revises his speeches before for the mirror.
In 2012, in the crucial decision that had approved the reform, the Supreme Court’s John Roberts, appointed by George W. Bush and thus ranked among the conservative majority of America’s highest judicial body, had tipped the balance by joining the four judges (out of nine) Liberal Anglo-Saxon sense, appointed by Democratic presidents. During Wednesday’s hearing, the liberal minority of the Court has increased advocacy for the system in place. Justice Anthony Kennedy, appointed by Republican Ronald Reagan sometimes votes with the Liberals on social issues, though seemingly divided between the two readings of the law. Roberts he has expressed little on the matter. This is probably once again his decision which depends mostly on emblematic reform from the Presidency of Mr. President Obama.