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[Professor H]

Sounds like Obama Care Mandate is upheld - court says it is legal as it is really a Tax.

[Frenchfry]

Obamacare Seems To Be Reducing Federal Govt Health Costs
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/247231.php

Republicans Unwilling To Let Obama ‘Move Forward’ After Health Care Ruling

Though the Supreme Court ruling on the Obama administration’s signature health care reform law dominated the news cycle on Thursday, there were already signs that the landmark decision may be merely a footnote to this November’s presidential election.

The court’s decision to uphold the most controversial aspect of the law — the individual mandate — had Democrats hailing the ruling as a “win” and Republicans denouncing it in the sharpest possible terms.

Even before the court handed down its decision, presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney’s campaign was ready to declare victory.

While Romney expressed his displeasure with the ruling on Thursday, he also signaled how he would try to capitalize on it between now and November.

“What the court did not do in its last day in session,” Romney said. “I will do on the first day as President of the United States. And that is, I will act to repeal Obamacare.”

The ruling leaves Romney with one of his favorite stump speech punching bags — one that he can keep on jabbing over the next five months.

President Obama, on the other hand, said in brief remarks at the White House that it was time to “move forward.”

“I know there will be a lot of discussion today about the politics of all this, about who won and who lost.  That’s how these things tend to be viewed here in Washington,” Obama said. “But that discussion completely misses the point. Whatever the politics, today’s decision was a victory for people all over this country whose lives will be more secure because of this law and the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold it.”

But with a recent Gallup poll showing that only six percent of Americans said healthcare was the most important problem facing the country compared to a combined 56 percent who said that either the economy, in general, or unemployment was their biggest concern, it was not surprising that the president pivoted away from health care as he closed his remarks.

“Now is the time to keep our focus on the most urgent challenge of our time,” Obama said, “putting people back to work, paying down our debt, and building an economy where people can have confidence that if they work hard, they can get ahead.”

And while Democrats celebrated on Thursday, Republicans argued that they had reason to rejoice too.

“This decision will drive Republican voter intensity sky-high,” said Steven Law, president and CEO of the GOP super PAC American Crossroads.

He added, “The last time Obamacare was litigated in a general election, Republicans picked up an historic number of seats in the U.S. House and made big gains in the U.S. Senate.”

And former Alaksa Gov. Sarah Palin observed, “Thank you, SCOTUS. This Obamacare ruling fires up the troops as America’s eyes are opened!”

It is evidently a sentiment shared by the Romney campaign. All day long campaign aides in Boston were live-tweeting the results of their day-long fundraising drive that raked in more than $2 million in a matter of hours on Thursday.

“Just crossed $2 million in donations & 20,000+ donors for ‪#FullRepeal of Obamacare,” Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul noted.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/06/republicans-unwilling-to-let-obama-move-forward-after-health-care-ruling/

CNN & Fox News Fail On Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
"CNN and Fox News were left with egg on their faces on Thursday, as they got the Supreme Court's ruling on President Obama's health care law wrong — and even managed to make Obama initially think his health care law had been partially overturned. The trouble started early for CNN. Congressional correspondent Kate Boulduan read out part of the Court's ruling, which said that the individual mandate could not be upheld using the Commerce Clause. Disastrously, though, it failed to pick up the other part of the ruling, which said that it could be upheld as a tax...".

CNN & Fox News Fail On Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

[Frenchfry]

Largest Tax Increase In The History Of The World?
"Rush Limbaugh has a theory on what this Supreme Court decision on healthcare means. They of course said it's valid because it's a tax, oh my god the word tax was used, here comes Rush Limbaugh"

Largest Tax Increase In The History Of The World?

[Baby Hitler]

Largest Tax Increase In The History Of The World?
"Rush Limbaugh Rush Limbaugh"

At least now I know where a guy from work gets all his misinformation from.

[Frenchfry]

At least now I know where a guy from work gets all his misinformation from.

And I suspect that's true for at least one MT member as well...plus there's a strong physical resemblance for the guy I have in mind.

[Pax]

Same posting duplicated for those who think they've made a completely different thread here:

For those of you who have completely missed the point here: the Supremes/SCOTUS has affirmed the Obamacare TAX just as their forebears affirmed the Socialist Security TAX.  The "programs" and the "trust funds" and the "lock boxes" both bits of legislation purported to create are non-existent.  Good slaves pay their taxes and shut the hell up.  And good luck with that, sheeple; you're being fleeced more and more by your presumed overlords every day and don't even realize you haven't any pelts left at all...