Obama's Healthcare Law Headed to Supreme Court

Obama's Healthcare Law Appealed to Supreme Court

 

Newsmax says that twenty-six states and a small business group appealed this past Wednesday to the Supreme Court seeking to strike down every aspect of President Obama's signature health care law that was signed by President Obama last March.  The administration defends the law.  The states and the National Federation of Independent Business argue the entire law should be invalidated because Congress had exceeded its powers requiring that Americans purchase health insurance or face a penalty.  The Obama administration filed its own appeal and states that the law is constitutional and that the issue was appropriate for Supreme Court review. 

The Affordable Care Act will be a major issue in the 2012 presidential election next year.  All the Republican candidates have verbally expressed their opposition towards it and say they will push for its repeal if they are elected president.  Repealing the Affordable Care Act is one of Congresswoman Michelle's Bachmann's major "priorities."  She says repeatedly that she won't rest until Obamacare is repealed.  The only problem is she hasn't mobilized  a group of Republican House members to defund Obamacare.  If she won't gear up her efforts to strip funding from Obamacare while she's a Congresswoman, then I'm not too confident she'll do so if she were to win the presidency. 

Many legal experts claim that the nine-member Supreme Court will be closely divided on this issue.  There are four members of the Court who are consistently conservative, four liberal, and one a swing vote.  I could see this vote go either direction.  I wouldn't jump to conclusions that the U.S. Supreme Court is going to rule Obamacare unconstitutional.  There will be much pull and political persuasion for the nine-member panel to leave the ruling alone.  The Supreme Court isn't impartial.  They are influenced by the politics as well.  Also, Obamacare is part of the globalist agenda to transform America into a socialist state.  I'm sure the Supreme Court will be told to not rule against it.  We can't afford to be overly optimistic that the Supreme Court will strike down the ruling.  I'm afraid a compromise will be made somewhere down the line.