A Post-Constitution America
James McGovern
Executive Architect | Application Modernization | Enterprise Architecture | Financial Transformation | Fractional CTO
President Donald Trump has announced that he will stop making Obamacare’s cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments because they are unconstitutional. The Justice Department and a federal judge have agreed.??
Yet the left and the media don’t care because the constitutionality of an action no longer matters—except when citing the Constitution advances their agenda.?
The Affordable Care Act requires health insurers selling on the Obamacare exchanges to reduce out-of-pocket costs (e.g., deductibles, copays, etc.) for lower-income enrollees. And the law requires the federal government to reimburse insurers for those additional costs.??
However, the U.S. Constitution requires Congress to appropriate all money spent by the federal government. Congress never actually appropriated the money to reimburse insurers.??
President Obama realized the problem but decided he would make the payments anyway. It was a perfect example of his “So sue me!” approach to governing.??
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Are you channeling 2012? Why post about Obama in 2024? Here’s a link that discusses the subsidy which Trump killed 8 years ago. https://www.healthinsurance.org/obamacare/the-acas-cost-sharing-subsidies/
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7 个月Thank you, James McGovern. I noticed that a new term is being circulated among liberals. They are referring to anyone who wants to challenge the leftist actions on the basis of constitutionality as members of the "Cult of the Constitution." They want to paint our adherence to the constitution as a religious extremism. Meanwhile, they want to be able to say, "No person is above the law." The wicked use the law more effectively that the righteous. "To my friends, everything. To my enemies, the law."
Senior System Consultant at Optum Technologies of UnitedHealth Group
7 个月Very well and clearly written. Wish all Americans realize how vital and unique our Constitution is to us as the United States of America.
Oceanographer
7 个月This sounds like the exact type of propaganda that promotes a socialist agenda with repetitive dishonesty, exactly what we've seen from the governing party for decades. This is how we become governed by a body of oligarchs and bureaucrats who use a senile puppet to enact their will while gaslighting the rest of nation to claim we're not seeing what we're seeing. I've seen the British NHS system first hand, and this is not the type of healthcare reform America needs, but the benefits to big pharma are endless.