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- 12:18pm — May 20, 2013
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Today, the U.S. Supreme Court carefully weighed in on Congress’s 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act. Although the court upheld major portions of the act, it is far from perfect.... Read more»
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I am a Conservative not disappointed at all that someone of Ron Barber’s character and experience is my new Congressman. He actually sets a new narrative for what it is to be an Arizonan first, a Democrat second. It is too late to opine on the Surpreme Court and they don’t care what our opinion is, anyway. I do give kudos to Chief Justice Roberts for his imagination and creative method of finding the “AHA” Constitutional. Despite Minority Speaker Pelosi’s promise we’d all know what is in the Act after it’s signed, most of the damage (in revelations) will be done when things become apparent after the November Elections. The insurance lobby won, illegals will still resist buying the mandatory policy, and in time nothing about the act will be “affordable.” I do feel for anyone who could not get insurance before, and mandating it does not suddenly make it affordable. Instead of being unable to buy access to high quality care they’ll be able to buy marganialized inferior healthcare - sometimes through tax credits (someone else’s taxes pay). This Law of the Land stands until Repeal becomes the Law of the Land. The real problems with healthcare are where Congress should have directed its attention: higher costs and skyrocketing premiums. The “affordable” promise of Medicare D went out the window once enacted. Prescription costs skyrocketed. Don’t see trends changing. Costs going up, benefits going down.