"Decision Looms In Lawsuit That May Actually Crush Obamacare"

[Dawson Leery]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/halbig-obamacare-ruling-looms-dc-circuit

"Randolph, a George H.W. Bush appointee, said the text of the statute "seems perfectly clear on its face" that the subsidies are confined to state-run exchanges. Carter-appointed Judge Harry T. Edwards slammed the challengers' claims as "preposterous." So the deciding vote appears to be with George W. Bush-appointed Judge Thomas B. Griffith, who wasn't resolute but sounded unconvinced of the Obama administration's defense, saying it had a "special burden" to show that the language "doesn't mean what it appears to mean."

"If the three-judge panel rules against federal Obamacare subsidies, sources close to the case say the administration is very likely to request an en banc ruling -- a re-vote taken by the full D.C. Circuit. The math of the overall bench is friendlier to the White House: 7 judges are Democratic appointees and 4 are Republican appointees. Four of the judges were placed by President Barack Obama himself, all during his second term."

[Dawson Leery]

1. kick

[drm604]

2. There are people who are determined to create health care chaos.

They don't care how many people they hurt, kill, or bankrupt, or what damage they do to the economy, they just want to totally cripple the health care system. They apparently don't even care if they destroy the insurance companies in the process, which is totally weird, given that the lawsuit was crafted by the Cato Institute.

[napkinz]

3. kick

nt