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发帖数: 3435 | 1 最后一句是关键，奥黑驴滥用权力祸国殃民。美国历史上敢于越过国会限制的总统，虽
然没有黑驴这么祸害，也是100%被弹劾。黑驴的结局注定是象陈水扁一样悲惨的。
Republicans won the first round Thursday in a separation of powers battle
against President Obama that once again focuses on his most prized
achievement: Obamacare.
Federal district Judge Rosemary Collyer, a Republican appointee, ruled that
the law does not provide for the funds insurers need to make health
insurance policies under the program affordable.
While the law provides for tax credits, she said, it does not authorize an
appropriation for slashing deductibles and copayments. Without those
reductions from insurers, many consumers could not afford to buy insurance.
"Congress authorized reduced cost-sharing but did not appropriate monies for
it," Collyer said in her 38-page ruling. "Congress is the only source for
such an appropriation, and no public money can be spent without one."
Collyer blocked her own decision from taking effect while awaiting a likely
appeal from the administration.
Cost-sharing subsidies reduce consumers' insurance payments -- an important
feature of the Affordable Care Act, because deductibles are rising. Under
the law, subsidies are available to people who earn between 100% and 250% of
the federal poverty level. For a family of four, that’s about $24,000 to $
61,000.
The Commonwealth Fund estimated up to 7 million people might have plans with
cost-sharing reductions this year.
The ruling does not represent as big a threat to the health care law as two
previous conservative challenges swatted down by the Supreme Court in 2012
and 2015. The first would have gutted the law; the second would have
eliminated tax credits in many states.
“It’s a setback, and it’s a distraction … but a lot of people think the
administration will win on appeal,” said Katherine Hempstead, who heads the
insurance coverage team at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a public
health philanthropy.
Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University law professor who
represented the House of Representatives in the lawsuit, called the opinion
a historic ruling reaffirming Congress’s power of the purse.
“Judge Collyer’s opinion is a resounding victory not just for Congress but
for our constitutional system as a whole,” he said in a statement on his
blog. “We remain a system based on the principle of the separation of
powers and the guarantee that no branch or person can govern alone.”
White House press secretary Josh Earnest was dismissive of the decision. “
It’s not the first time that we’ve seen opponents of the Affordable Care
Act go through the motions to try to win this political fight in the court
system,” he said.
“It’s unfortunate that Republicans have resorted to a taxpayer-funded
lawsuit to re-fight a political fight that they keep losing. They’ve been
fighting this fight for six years, and they’ll lose it again.”
Collyer previously denied Republicans' effort to sue over another aspect of
the law -- the administration's unilateral delay in implementing its mandate
that most large employers offer health insurance or pay a penalty. While
GOP opponents didn't object to delay, they argued Obama lacked the authority
to do it without congressional approval. | W***o
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【在 q*******u 的大作中提到】
: 最后一句是关键，奥黑驴滥用权力祸国殃民。美国历史上敢于越过国会限制的总统，虽
: 然没有黑驴这么祸害，也是100%被弹劾。黑驴的结局注定是象陈水扁一样悲惨的。
: Republicans won the first round Thursday in a separation of powers battle
: against President Obama that once again focuses on his most prized
: achievement: Obamacare.
: Federal district Judge Rosemary Collyer, a Republican appointee, ruled that
: the law does not provide for the funds insurers need to make health
: insurance policies under the program affordable.
: While the law provides for tax credits, she said, it does not authorize an
: appropriation for slashing deductibles and copayments. Without those
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