The dispute over Obama’s health care reform policies employed and the courts for years. Now a Republic has been classified by cher judge Obamacare as unconstitutional. The Democrats are up in arms.
A conservative Federal judge health care reform by the former US-President Barack Obama for “invalid”. He justified this with the tax reform of 2017. The would revoke Obamacare, the constitutional basis, wrote judge Reed O’connor in a 55-page explanatory statement.
in its decision, the judge supported the plaintiff, an Alliance of about 20 Republican-led U.S. States. The judge deemed it to be unconstitutional, that the US citizens who would not buy health care, would be financially punished. Obama’s Reform had required a money penalty. This penalty payment was confirmed in 2012 by the Supreme Court. The Republican-controlled Congress abolished the penalty, however. Now it was in the suit, there is also no legal Basis for the decision of the Supreme Court from six years ago.
Trump celebrated the court’s decision: “Wow, but not surprisingly, Obamacare has just been classified by a highly respected judge in Texas as UNCONSTITUTIONAL,” wrote Trump on Twitter. “Great news for America!”
the case for the Supreme Court
The White house announced that Obamacare for the duration of the appeal proceedings, to stay for the time being. The judgment is likely to be in front of the Supreme Court of the United States challenged. Attorneys General and governors of the Democrats, said the decision already in the fight.
“The Republicans bear full responsibility for this cruel decision,” said the Chairman-designate of the house of representatives, the Democrat Nancy Pelosi. You spoke of an “absurd judgment”. For the leader of the Democrats in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, is based, the judgment is “faulty legal reasoning”. It will tilted “hopefully,” he said. The judgment of the higher courts should be confirmed, “this would be a disaster for tens of millions of American families.”
U.S. President Donald Trump: “Great news for America”
adopted in 2010
Obamacare was passed in 2010 and regulates the access to health insurance. For years, led a political and legal dispute. The Republicans had already failed several times last year, the health care should be abolished. The U.S. Supreme court had ruled in 2012 that Obamacare would be kept. Five of the nine Supreme Court judges who had voted for the retention, in the office.
proposal to Obamacare-abolition failed, 28.07.2017 Strong demand for Obamacare, despite Trump, 15.12.2017 Atlas |USA |Washington D. C.
