Poll: Do You Agree with Supreme Court Healthcare Ruling?
In a complicated decision, the justices upheld most of the health care reform legislation popularly known as Obamacare.
Do you agree with the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Thursday upholding most of President Obama's signature health care reform legislation? By a 5-4 vote, the justices upheld most of the act, although the opinion is a complicated one. The court upheld the requirement that every American purchase health insurance or else pay a penalty, as a tax decision and upheld it on those grounds, in an opinion written by Chief Justice Roberts. "Our precedent demonstrates that Congress has the power to impose the exaction in Section 5000 under the taxing power, and that Section 5000 need not be read to do more than impose a tax," Roberts wrote in one of the key sentences from the opinion. Click here to read the full text of the opinion. Vote in our poll …
Louis Herkalo
9:16 am on Wednesday, August 15, 2012
WHO ARE YOU CALLING A JERK YOU REPUBLICAN FOOL. IF ROMNEY WINS, HE'S GOING TO TAKE YOU FOR A RIDE UNLESS YOU MAKE A MILLION PLUS!! HE IS GOING TO GIVE A 12% TAX BREAK TO ALL. SOMEONE MAKES 3 MILLION, THEY GET A 12% BREAK. SOMEONE MAKING 75,000 ALSO GETS A 12% BREAK. DO THE MATH IDIOT. WHO WINS IN THE LONG RUN; THE RICH!! ROMNEY IS ONLY LOOKING OUT FOR HIS OWN. AS FOR OBAMACARE, IF YOUR MOTHER, … more ›