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To: Brumar89 who wrote (867946)	6/25/2015 7:17:21 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578133

"We know Sanders isn't just a high tax welfare state socialist, " He's all things to all people. Grubergruber... Koch lobbyist trolls Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia authored the court's dissenting opinion. "Today’s interpretation is not merely unnatural; it is unheard of. Who would ever have dreamt that 'Exchange established by the State' means 'Exchange established by the State or the Federal Government'? Little short of an express statutory definition could justify adopting this singular reading." "We should start calling this law SCOTUScare." "The Court holds that when the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act says 'Exchange established by the State' it means 'Exchange established by the State or the Federal Government.' That is of course quite absurd, and the Court’s 21 pages of explanation make it no less so." "Yet the opinion continues, with no semblance of shame, that 'it is also possible that the phrase refers to all Exchanges—both State and Federal.' (Impossible possibility, thy name is an opinion on the Affordable Care Act!)" "The Court’s next bit of interpretive jiggery-pokery involves other parts of the Act that purportedly presuppose the availability of tax credits on both federal and state Exchanges." "Much less is it our place to make everything come out right when Congress does not do its job properly. It is up to Congress to design its laws with care, and it is up to the people to hold them to account if they fail to carry out that responsibility." "Pure applesauce." "The somersaults of statutory interpretation they have performed ('penalty' means tax, 'further [Medicaid] payments to the State' means only incremental Medicaid payments to the State, 'established by the State' means not established by the State) will be cited by litigants endlessly, to the confusion of honest jurisprudence. And the cases will publish forever the discouraging truth that the Supreme Court of the United States favors some laws over others, and is prepared to do whatever it takes to uphold and assist its favorites." usnews.com