Could This Lawsuit Really ‘Fatally Cripple’ Obamacare?

Jason Howerton
The Blaze
10/22/2013

A federal judge on Tuesday declined to dismiss a lawsuit that could “fatally cripple” Obamacare, the Daily Mail reports.

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A group of small businesses have reportedly filed a lawsuit claiming that the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, prevents the federal government from enforcing the federal law, as passed by Congress, in any state that chooses not to set up its own health care exchange. However, there seems to be another provision that could provide the feds a way around that.

A total of 36 states chose not set up its own exchanges.

The Obama administration, according to their lawsuit, has ignored that language in the law, enforcing all of its provisions even in states where the federal government is operating the insurance marketplaces on the error-plagued Healthcare.gov website.

Thirty-six states chose not to set up their exchanges, a move that effectively froze Washington, D.C. out of the authority to pay subsidies and other pot-sweeteners to convince citizens in those states to buy medical insurance.

But the IRS overstepped its authority by paying subsidies in those states anyway, say the businesses and their lawyers….

The article continues at The Blaze.

 

Here is the legal archive of the case, Halbig v. Sebelius

 

 

Related:   GTF reminded us we hadn’t yet posted this: John McAfee on Obamacare: ‘This is a hacker’s wet dream’ [VIDEO]

On Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto” on Wednesday, computer programmer and founder of McAfee, Inc. John McAfee said the online component of Obamacare “is a hacker’s wet dream” that will cause “the loss of income for the millions of Americans who are going to lose their identities.”

For starters, McAfee said the way it is set up makes it possible for fake websites be set up to fool people to think they’re signing up for Obamacare.

“It’s seriously bad,” McAfee said. “Somebody made a grave error, not in designing the program but in simply implementing the web aspect of it. I mean, for example, anybody can put up a web page and claim to be a broker for this system. There is no central place where I can go and say, ‘OK, here are all the legitimate brokers, the examiners for all of the states and pick and choose one.’”…

…“Here’s the problem: It’s not something software can solve,” McAfee continued. “I mean, what idiot put this system out there and did not create a central depository? There should be one website, run by the government, you go to that website and then you can click on all of the agencies. This is insane. So, I will predict that the loss of income for the millions of Americans who are going to lose their identities — I mean, you can imagine some retired lady in Utah, who has $75,000 dollars in the bank, saving her whole life, having it wiped out in one day because she signed up for Obamacare. And believe me, this is going to happen millions of times. This is a hacker’s wet dream. I mean I cannot believe that they did this.”…

 

Read the whole thing.

 

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UpdateDEVELOPING… See What Prices On Healthcare.gov Look Like BEFORE Subsidies…

Healthcare.gov features a tool to search through health insurance providers in your area to see how much Obamacare can save you. The catch? The catch is, those prices are all AFTER maximum subsidies are calculated into the price by the website….

…Want to see what the prices are without subsidies? Well someone forgot to password the database the prices are fetched from…

 

 

 

 

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