Waiting for Roberts to give them a mulligan
by digby
Good old Mitch let’s the cat out of the bag:
Q: How do you approach the Affordable Care Act now?
A: McConnell:
“It bears the president’s name. The chances of his signing a full repeal are pretty limited. There are parts of it that are extremely toxic with the American people. The elimination of the 40 hour work week. The individual mandate. The medical device tax. The health insurance tax. I think you could anticipate those kinds of things being voted on in the Senate. Such votes have not been allowed in the past.
“Who may ultimately take it down is the Supreme Court of the United States. I mean there’s a very significant case that will be decided before June on the question of whether the language of the law means what the language of the law says, which is that subsidies are only available for states that set up state exchanges. Many states have not. If that were to be the case, I would assume that you could have a mulligan here, a major do-over of the whole thing — that opportunity presented to us by the Supreme Court, as opposed to actually getting the president to sign a full repeal, which is not likely to happen.”
And too bad about the people who’ll be screwed. Whatever. I’m sure their “do-over” will depend on tort-reform and selling insurance across state lines which will solve everything.
I’m sure John Roberts is listening …
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