Monday, November 10, 2014

TYPO and Partisan Judges could stop Obamacare! Sad, but true

http://www.alternet.org/economy/paul-krugman-decimates-rabidly-partisan-judges-threatening-obamacare-based-typo

 It is a terrible sign that the Supreme Court decided to hear a blatantly "partisan" and "frivolous" case challenging Obamacare last week, Paul Krugman writes Monday.  What kind of sick perverters of justice would be willing to deprive millions of Americans of health care based on a typo?
Ugghh, on second thought, don't answer that.
And it is a typo, make no mistake. As Krugman writes:
Last week the court shocked many observers by saying that it was  willing to hear a case claiming that the wording of one clause in the Affordable Care Act sets drastic limits on subsidies to Americans who buy health insurance. It’s a ridiculous claim; not only is it clear from everything else in the act that there was no intention to set such limits, you can ask the people who drafted the law what they intended, and it wasn’t what the plaintiffs claim. But the fact that the suit is ridiculous is no guarantee that it won’t succeed — not in an environment in which all too many Republican judges have made it clear that partisan loyalty trumps respect for the rule of law.

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