Comments on: THE “OVERSIGHT” THAT MAY KILL OBAMACARE http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/11/27/the-oversight-that-may-kill-obamacare/ Cleaning the Augean Stables of the Health Care Debate Thu, 10 May 2012 21:39:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Paul Hsieh http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/11/27/the-oversight-that-may-kill-obamacare/#comment-462871 Paul Hsieh Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:33:27 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/11/27/the-oversight-that-may-kill-obamacare/#comment-462871 David: I hope you're right. But according to Peter Suderman, the SCOTUS might not actually follow that reasoning. http://reason.com/blog/2010/11/30/if-obamacares-individual-manda This phrase in particular caught my eye: "...the Court 'presumes severability unless non-severability is explicitly specified.'" So even though it is is a massive oversight by the Congress, given how politicized this issue is, I don't necessarily count on the SCOTUS to do the right thing here. David: I hope you’re right. But according to Peter Suderman, the SCOTUS might not actually follow that reasoning.

http://reason.com/blog/2010/11/30/if-obamacares-individual-manda

This phrase in particular caught my eye:
“…the Court ‘presumes severability unless non-severability is explicitly specified.’”

So even though it is is a massive oversight by the Congress, given how politicized this issue is, I don’t necessarily count on the SCOTUS to do the right thing here.

]]> By: ECM http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/11/27/the-oversight-that-may-kill-obamacare/#comment-462782 ECM Mon, 29 Nov 2010 06:18:13 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/11/27/the-oversight-that-may-kill-obamacare/#comment-462782 You'd think, in a 2000 page bill, that literally everything would be in it (including a complete version of the King James Bible)--what a bunch of incompetent clowns. You’d think, in a 2000 page bill, that literally everything would be in it (including a complete version of the King James Bible)–what a bunch of incompetent clowns.

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