(October 14, 2017 at 12:17 am)Khemikal Wrote:(October 13, 2017 at 10:48 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: On what basis is there cause for a lawsuit? Are the subsidies written into law? Where does the money to fund them come from? What kind of contract exists between the insurance companies and a particular office of the federal government?The ACA
Quote:IMO it's stupid to pay the insurance companies because they don't add any value to the process. It would be better if the federal government ran the system on the Medicare model and offered a series of graduated programs like the insurance companies do in addition to the basic 80% plan.
The insurance companies could continue to exist but they would have to compete with the federal plans as well as with each other.
It's not an issue of what you think is smart or stupid, and I appreciate that you have opinions here..so do I, but so what? The ACA set obligations for the government as well as insurers..and insurers created, sold, then set their policies based upon those stated obligations..and all of this, they will argue.... cost them money.
That's why you can't have a chimp at the fucking helm.
The problem is that a dumb bunny judge said that the subsidies were illegal and the assholes on the appeals court have been dragging their feet in hearing the case. Now at least 20 States are filing a lawsuit to reinstate the subsidies. When the idiot wrote the ACA he had his head up his ass and screwed it up and the stupid Dems were too retarded to read and understand the crap that the fool wrote and that they approved. Now the moron is running loose and his actions will kill people.
