A Supreme Court Ruling in Favor of King could save Democrats

We will know as early as Thursday and no later than this coming Monday, how the Supreme Court rules in the case of King vs Burwell. 

So what happens if the Supreme Court rules in favor of King in this case?  Well, if you listen to the rhetoric coming from the Obama Administration, the ruling will be utter chaos and millions of hard working Americans, 6.4 million to be exact, will all find their healthcare unaffordable and consequently they will be without.  And of course, the administration has assured everyone that Republican’s do not have a clue as what they might do if in fact they win this case.

As well, the Obama Administration claims to have no fallback plan of their own and speaks mostly of the doom and gloom that will befall those 6.4 million who will have their healthcare plans snatched from their hands if the Supreme Court does not do what Constitutional Scholars expect them to do.

And as do Republican lawmakers, the Obama Administration certainly does have a plan B, if they don’t then they are without a doubt the most inept administration that has ever served the White House.  The big question is, will either party have to reveal their plan B?  That we will have to wait and see.

But what if the Supreme Court rules in favor of Burwell, would this be a grand victory for the Obama Administration?  Well I guess to at least some Democrats maybe, but such a decision would do nothing to help with the litany of both old and new problems that are certain to doom the already struggling healthcare law, it would only prolong the laws suffering.

While you’ll never get one to admit it publically, there certainly has to be some number of Democrats in congress that would not lose any sleep if in fact the Supreme Court ruled in favor of King.  Politically this would take the pressure off of Democrats who have had to live with this ObamaCare albatross around their neck.  ObamaCare has already cost Democrats the House and the Senate and if the law continues to deteriorate, it could very easily seal their fate in losing the White House.

Granted, repealing the individual mandate, for all intents and purposes, guts the law.  But politically speaking, if a solid fix could be put in place that brought stability to what remained of ObamaCare, it would be difficult for Republicans to gain public support to repeal the entire law even if they were to win the White House.  On the other hand, if the law continues to falter, Democrats might be forced to take a position against ObamaCare.  Having the wheels already set in motion by a Republican action significantly lessens the political backlash as oppose to what Democrats would face if the law simply imploded upon itself while under Democrat’s control.

It will be interesting to see what happens either way and I hope folks on the left are not going to be too disappointed when the world does not come to an end if in fact the ruling is in favor of King.

The Irony of ObamaCare Subsidies

With the Supreme Court expecting to release their decision on the King vs. Burwell case any day now, Democrats, with the aid of the liberal media, have been pushing the narrative that Republicans will be responsible for the 6.4 million Americans that could face the possibility of losing their healthcare if the SCOTUS rules in favor of King.

How ironic is it that the party who solely created and passed a massively complex and purely partisan piece of legislation of which the majority of Americans have never been in favor of, wants to make this a Republican problem.  But there is an even greater irony of which pertains to the subsidies themselves.

Let’s brake this whole subsidies thing down so to see what I am talking about.

Of the 6.4 million individuals the Obama Administration claims could lose their healthcare insurance if in fact the Supreme Court rules in favor of the King, well over 4 million of those individuals were insured and paying a premium they found affordable prior to being mandated to do so by the Federal Government.  Now that's ironic

And of the roughly 2 million in balance, whom we have no idea of what their income status is other than it is above what would qualify them for Medicaid, the narrative Democrats would like people to believe is that every one of these 2 million or so individuals would find healthcare insurance unaffordable without the aid of subsidies.  However, it is just as likely that some percentage of these individuals were capable of affording healthcare insurance at pre-Obamacare rates but simply chose not to.  This too is quite ironic.

Whatever the percentage of these 2 million individuals, whose income is in fact so low that they are relied upon the subsidies in order to afford healthcare insurance, they would be no worse off if they where to lose their insurance than they were before Obamacare existed.  And if in fact these individuals were to lose their healthcare plans, they would have Congressional Democrats and  President Obama to thank for passing in to law such a convoluted, poorly written and massively unpopular partisan healthcare bill that was certain to be riddled with problems and likely to be repealed.

And wouldn’t it be ironic of it took a Supreme Court decision in favor of King to finally get ObamaCare out of the way so that legislators could then sit down and ultimately create a market based healthcare reform plan that actually made healthcare affordable instead of just getting other people to pay for a subsidies Band-Aid?