Scoundrels vs. ObamaCare

Scoundrels Inc. vs. ObamaCare

March 26, 2012

Today marks a historic day in the life of these United States of America.  A land-mark case such as Dread Scot (1857) is before the U.S. Supreme Court. This time however, race is not the issue, although, there are underlings in the greater scope of the political contention, but a case of major proportions which questions federal jurisdiction over states rights and the power of the Federal government over individual rights. 

Twenty six dissident GOP-led states in a united front, filed for review before the United States Supreme Court in objection to President Barack Obama Administration’s “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” signed into law in March 2010, and today, the Court began hearing arguments.  The complainant opposition is a GOP-TeaParty and allied with BigBusinessUnited effort, in hopes of undermining the Democratic aim of providing affordable health care to all Americans.    

After a successful opposition by the Republicans in Congress to the #SinglePayer health Care legislation, as initially proposed by Democrats, efforts to bring affordable health care to the American people failed, thus resulting in a watered-downed health care law which is now being challenged before the U.S. Supreme Court.  Under the scurrilous name of “ObamaCare” as tagged by the Republican/Tea-Party opposition, the law called for penalizing those individual citizens who would opt out of not purchasing health care insurance. Thus, herein lays the trap laid by the Republican-led opposition; after Republicans realized they could not entirely prevent Democrats from passing a form of health care legislation, Republicans in Congress pushed Democrats into providing a mechanism by which the new legislation would be paid for. Hence, Democrats placed a requirement for every citizen to be enrolled, and if healthcare was not provided by their employer or already not enrolled in a government program, individuals were required under this law to purchase individual insurance – with no option to opt out.  Accordingly, opposition to #ObamaCare argues before the Court; whether Congress can compel citizens to purchase health insurance?

 Conveniently, present-day US Supreme Court is heavily influenced and packed with adulterated Justices who are often seen cuddling with special business interest and who also hold extreme religious convictions. In fact, Chief Justice and Associate Justices in the Court with Conservative/extreme-religious credentials make up the majority of the Court and therefore, often tip the balance on the side of conservative/religious causes. So far however, the most adulterated Justice (Thomas) has remained mum in this Court’s session and on this particular case. This silence notwithstanding, John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Anthony Kennedy comprise the known pack of conservative/religious scoundrels in the Court who will ultimately decide Scoundrels vs. ObamaCare.

Joseph Chez ///