Supreme Court

I don’t ever want to hear a liberal say that the Supreme Court will favor the right especially  since the Chief Justice Roberts was a Bush appointee and he became the deciding vote on upholding Obamacare. So does this mean if there is an increase of people eligible for Medicaid will they be able to get it? The States are responsible for Medicaid.

Even though the President and Democrats keep telling county that this is not a Tax yet the Lawyers that argued in front of the Supreme Court in favor of Obamacare called it a Tax to justify it under the Commerce clause and apparently the Court agreed. So now this is the largest tax increase ever in America.

Now the question will be how Medicaid will be affected since the Court strike down the Medicaid expansion portion of the Bill.  

Chief Justice Roberts wrote: 

"As for the Medicaid expansion, that portion of the Affordable Care Act violates the Constitution by threatening existing Medicaid funding,"

"Congress has no authority to order the States to regulate according to its instructions. Congress may offer the States grants and require the States to comply with accompanying conditions, but the States must have a genuine choice whether to accept the offer. The States are given no such choice in this case: They must either accept a basic change in the nature of Medicaid, or risk losing all Medicaid funding. The remedy for that constitutional violation is to preclude the Federal Government from imposing such a sanction. That remedy does not require striking down other portions of the Affordable Care Act."

So does this mean if there is an increase of people who becomes eligible for Medicaid, will they be able to get it? Sure the US Government will fund the States for the first 5yrs but what happen after that since the Government can’t force the States to comply.

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