In wake of an appellate court decision on the Affordable Care Act, The Root's Jason Johnson discusses the importance of the the courts when it comes to healthcare plans. Aired on 12/19/19.
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Johnson: Can't Do Anything About Medicare For All Without Plan For Courts | The 11th Hour | MSNBC
The rightwing lawsuits are going to come either way, so why not take a chance.
Gotta keep lining the pockets of big businesses, and to heck with the public, right America? There’s never enough money for public services, that could even reduce costs if you’d do things the rest of us in the developed world do, but you always manage to justify stuffing half the budget into the military, then increasing that value each year. You have gun violence on par with developing nations, but it’s always only thoughts, and prayers after every mass shooting that catches media attention.
It’s insane how many road blocks big businesses, and rich donors have managed to put in the way of things that are for the common good in America, because of how beholden your government is to them. Yet instead of railing on that central issue to pretty much every big problem in American governance, picketing in the streets daily to try to get rid of legal lobbying, and so on in a manner as if your lives depended on it, because you know what, it looks like they do, you guys still just want to bicker about the nonsense on the sides, and chase after every distraction they throw out for you.
You guys stopped being a democracy years ago it would seem, as you’re clearly ruled by the rich, which allow you to think you still have a democracy, by letting you vote in puppets, as no matter which ones are in, little ultimately changes. America is an oligarchy, that has a thin democratic veneer.
They have been for Big Business since the 1920’s.
@Nicholas A. Sure America has always been leaning a bit too much for the benefit of corporate America, but after legal lobbying in the 1980s, they stopped trying to hide it, and it’s just been in the open as to who is calling the shots, as things for the benefit of the common, or middle class person deteriorate. Surely you’ve heard of the collapse of the American middle class, and ever widening gap between the rich, and poor, right? The average person is considered to have a better chance of making a good go of things in other first world countries, than they would in America due to these things, but if you’re rich, then you’re sitting high on the hog in America.
The courts have screwed up the ACA because they mess with the individual mandate and penalties. They haven’t messed with Medicare because it’s funded through taxes.
This is extremely misleading. ACA has been vulnerable in the courts because it was sloppily and precariously designed. M4A does not have those legal vulnerabilities. It is funded through normal taxation which SCOTUS has already ruled appropriate. That’s why Medicare itself has been around for 50 years.
Misleading observation.
What Americans objected to with the ACA was that there was a mandate to make an out-of-pocket purchase, not the provision of a government service with no ‘out of pocket’ expenses.
It’s apples and oranges, and this take is designed to suppress interest based on a false comparison, otherwise the military, postal service, Medicare, and every other federal government service that is universal would also be hung up in the Supreme Court.
Also, by definition, insurance is a risk product – a bet. Like gambling, you may or may not get your money’s worth, or any underlying service from the premiums you pay, based on your knowledge of a policy that the issuer understands the ins and outs of better than you. The entire idea of calling your insurer after a need arises to see IF you’re covered is a product of that inherent risk.
Trump getting reelected means he’ll get a 6-3 SCOTUS. Then it’s game over for all the Dream Big people.
LOL! Translation: MSNBC “analyst” comes straight out and says judicial activism and court packing are the best ways to undermine the law.
MSNBC misleading ppl again
MSNBC do you know that guy on the right side of the table is a black supremacist? Do you care that he is Anglophobic?
Besides Biden, Warren and Sanders none of the other bozos have any chance of getting the South or Bible Belt to vote for them; so what are they up to? Even Warren and Sanders are going to be attacked as Commies! Why should our government work for us; the poor 1% need more tax breaks. Still you don’t have worry, by this time next year your Idol god drumpf will have started the war, declared martial law and suspend elections! Then you will not have to worry about self-rule anymore. Your 1% owners controlled senate and installed corporate judges will back their puppet! So get your favorite Corporate Flags out, whatever flag you like, USA, The Patriots or The Yankees, it doesn’t matter. As long as you bow down to your 1% owners! Our Democracy is Dead, corporation are now “We The People” and money is “Free Speech.” The only question left now is, are you going to jump into your owner’s grinder; or walk away and let their Beast system die? youtube.com/watch?v=Xbp6umQT58A You should watch it all, but at least @ 8:23, you’ll see the start of phase 2; this is where we are today.
Thank you for mentioning only Amy Klobuchar gets no new legislation will stick without doing something about the courts. And that *she* has the only plan to fix it.
That’s it? Just a bad faith argument against Medicare for all? That’s a whole clip?