Health Care Scorecard: Two Federal Judges for the Law, Two Against

Do not worry out there. I am sure that the supreme court will vote along party lines without regard to what is written in the constitution. As the lower courts have done so will they. I have also read through many of the comments here and see the same thyme going through all. I do get a laugh out of the comments when they mention that they are working for a large business but then never mention the businesses name. Have seen that so many times. Just words with nothing to back them up. Oh well. The next two years in Washington will be interesting.

.for forty five years I paid into Blue Cross and blue shield, last month I was forced to get a Medicare card (I also had medicare taken out of my earnings). I did not want Medicare because I heard the doctors don't take medicare patients or give the same kind of care so today I have two health care plans, BCBS and Medicare which costs me an extra 155.00 a month. This is madness why can't Medicare be voluntary. If you hit 65 and have no insurance then you pay the 155.00 and leave everyone else alone.

There are so many great things in the Health Reform Bill. Why are the republicans using every method to try to overturn it. They seem to be totally beholden to the health insurance industry.

klovepr9:41 AM Feb 2, 2011 Oh now that's really funny. Obama has been in office for TWO YEARS and spent trillions of dollars creating "shovel ready jobs," yet you expect the Republicans to do it in a month? Have you noticed how the stock market has jumped since they took over in January? The jobs are coming you dole...............................If anything is funny it is this lame excuse of a post of yours. First off what proof do you have that trillions of dollars hace been spent on shovel ready jobs? Your source please? And with the republicans in the senate blocking every piece of positive jobs legislation this president and the US house has already passed how was any money spent at all let along trillions? An wasn't it Boehner who went around all summer hollering where are the jobs? Then he campaigned on jobs jobs jobs. This would be his congresses number 1 priority. We will focus on this like a lazor. Four weeks later still no jobs or mention of them. All they are doing is trying to undo legislation that has already been done knowing fool well that it is a lost cause and doing this to deflect from the fact that they have no ideas about jobs creation or anything else. So spin alll you want but the only thing funny is your post.

I work for one of the largest non-government employers in the US. I took this part time job in order to get a better track to a full time job in the company. I just got on the internal job postings and found 286 jobs available - only two were full time. The rest vary between 15-20 hours a week. Why - according to one HR rep, the company cannot afford the cost associated with what is coming down the pike for health care and taxes when it comes to expanding and hiring full time employees. They feel they are better off with part-timers. Thanks a lot Barry.

The Founding Fathers declared that we are "endowed with unalienable rights, among them are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." (1) There is no question that in order to have life we must have health. Yet there has been only limited constitutional language specific to this right. The "cruel and unusual punishment" clause of the 8th Amendment to the Constitution has been interpreted by the Supreme Court to require prisoners, as part of their humane treatment during detention, to be guaranteed the right to health care. (2) Currently prisoners are the only group who are specifically granted the right to health care. It is probable that the founders of our country, if they could have predicted the importance of health care, would have granted that the same standard of humane treatment be extended to every citizen.

The score card means nothing. It does not matter if the supreme court has to rule on one appeal or all four. Their out come will apply to all appeals ans any future actions. The findings of the US supreme court are final. This bill will be repealed for being unconstitutional.You can not force all people and or companies to buy into anything. Those that compare it to car insurance are wrong. You do not have to have car insurance until you decide to register and drive a car on public streets. This states you have to have healthcare insurance just for breathing and it does not matter if you can afford it or not.This bill is a natural job killer.Example: My company can not afford to provide healthcare insurance the costs would put the company out of business. This company will now be penalized for not offering coverage. The company now lays off more people to cover that cost. Fact it is cheaper for a company to work with less employees and pay overtime then it is to add workers.

The Federal Government told the southern state they couldn't have slaves. The federal government told individual they must send their children to school. Now the federal Government is telling the people to get health insurance.

Just you wait! This abomination of a "LAW" will be declared Un-Constitutional! Why? Because the Supreme Court will say so in a 6-4 decision! One of those ladies will seek out the truth of our Great Constitution!

Well, lets get it right. Some 8 courts dismissed out of hand, and 4 went on to rule. So its not 2 vs 2. Its only 2 v 2 when an opinion was issued. As usual, the so called conservatives ignore reality for theory. People do not choose whether to see the Doctor, when they are sick. They go. And that's commerce. Its nonsense to compare health care with french fries, and the judge that did so, lacks intellectual honesty and rigor. This is about cost shifting. No one can pay for health care our of pocket unless you're an investment banker. So, the issue is how to pay for it. People will not stay home and chose not to go to the hospital or the Doctor. And if they cannot pay, then someone else does, usually the tax payer. To say that this is compelling people to pay for something they don't want is ludicrous. This is forcing people to participate in health care coverage and not allowing them to shift cost to the taxpayer.