ObamaCare & Supreme Court: SuperGuest's Primer

[honkey]

Funny Superguest...

your boy scott walker is going to have his budget get screwed up again, as his main budget balancing act was to strip medicaid in wisconsin to absolutely minimal levels. I am still on the fence about medicaid. On one hand I have met people that were wonderful people, worked very hard there entire lives, but were still unable to afford health care due to various circumstances.

On the other hand you have people doing spenddowns, shelter their money in various types of life insurance, long term care insurance, signing houses over to relatives (well in advance and in preperation of going on medicaid) simply to abuse the system.

[guest]

If you ain't cheatin' you ain't tryin

- Blade 2011

[blardtholomew]

Get busy trollin' or get busy dyin'

- Cu, since birth

[guest]

We're not payin' for that end of life care when you're dyin'

-Republican Congressmen

[guest]

This ruling was a disaster I agree with honkey there.

My boy Scott Walker is going to be fine. He can lower aid to towns. He will find a way to get the budget in line. There's lots of government to cut. Private prisons would help immensely.

It's ridiculous that government can force us to eat broccoli now or pay a tax if we don't want to.

[switch]

You guys can still appeal once they actually levy the fine, no?

[guest]

Today's ruling lets a state choose not to expand Medicaid - if they don't want to. That was the only thing that changed based upon the decision.

Honkey - you're right about "gaming the system" for long-term care. A lot of that has to do with unethical lawyers though. There's a whole industry of lawyers whose sole job is to get people onto Medicaid while saving their assets.

Switch - no. This was the end of the line. They ruled that the tax itself is constitutional. No more challenges.