( – promoted by Colorado Pols)
This month, the Supreme Court of the United States will rule on Obamacare (a.k.a the Affordable Care Act/the new health care law). While there is a lot of speculation about what will happen to Obamacare in the next few weeks, there is one thing we know for sure: it is working. Millions of Americans have already benefited from the new law… and there is still more to come.
The numbers speak for themselves. Currently, 54 million Americans receive life-saving preventative care thanks to Obamacare. 2.5 million people under 26 remain on their parents’ health insurance. 50,000 people with pre-existing conditions are now covered-a number set to grow by leaps and bounds when denial of people from coverage for pre-existing conditions ends in 2014.
With the outcome of the Supreme Court case looming, the thought of so many Americans losing access to better quality and more affordable health care is truly frightening. That is why we are launched a new video, “Don’t Deny Us.” People from across Colorado and the United States submitted photos to us to show that Obamacare has helped them and their families and to tell their stories with one simple statement: “Don’t Deny Us.” They want everyone to understand that Obamacare is helping real people. It is helping all of us. We put those photos together into the video below.
Please watch and share, because it’s important these voices be heard.
Also posted at Moms Rising.
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Why did Obama cut a no importation deal with the drug companies?
Will this corruption affect SCOTUS decision?
Don’t give them any reason to not kneel before The One. Obamacare is good. Forcing risk on insurers will make them cooperate. Taking your money away makes America stronger.
Too many Democrats have drunk the Kool Aid and can’t be saved.
If it was “forced on the insurers”, why were the insurance companies drooling at the prospect of the government sending millions of paying customers their way? Every major insurance provider signed onto this plan before it ever hit Congress for a vote.
Or did you just forget that part in your haste to rewrite history?
If the Supreme Court is persuaded by emotions, we’re in worse shape than I thought. I don’t want justices voting for something cause of some whiny baby.
Nice job on dumbing down the electorate on the role of the Supreme Court, jackasses.
The Supreme Court shouldn’t vote on whether or not Obamacare is working (IT IS).
They need to vote on whether or not it’s constitutional.
The tea party hates “Obamacare”. The insurance companies are drooling over the mandate…the SCOTUS will make a political decision…but which faction of the Greedy Old Patriarchs will they serve?
ah…the suspense.
because five out of nine of them are Republicans.
What is so fucking hard about this for people here? Whether it’s working doesn’t matter. Whether it’s Constitutional doesn’t matter. Whether the legal arguments are persuasive doesn’t matter.
The outcome of this case was decided on November 4, 2008.
can be judicial or whether it truly is a political entity. I’m not so cynical to believe that it’s an automatic decision against the mandate due to the 5 conservatives. After hearing days of oral arguments and some of the questions asked by the justices (broccolli anyone?) I think their decision will be beyond politics and may actually be about the law.
A big issue is whether there is precedent to turn to for this case or whether it would be setting precedent.
Don’t forget this case is about more than just the divisive mandate. There is also the expansion of medicare and the issue of severability.
Maybe I’m just one of the three or so liberals left who still have faith in the SCOTUS to leave politics behind when they put on the robes of office. We’ll see.
If omabacare is upheld on the mandate front then you Dems need to forage ahead with plans to expand Obamacare to food and twist the arms of Krogers, Safeway, the famers, and every deli in America.
(and this probably holds for most of the Democrats on this board) I would have rather seen a simple budget-balanced Medicare for All system enacted. Even the conservative justices noted that such a plan would be beyond questioning.
There’s no question about it, the mandate is messy. But in the end it was a Republican idea, so my biggest regret should it be struck down is the step backward we’ll likely be taking in getting better health care coverage in this country (which benefits all of us, as we’ll be exposed to fewer sick people, have healthier employees…).
So why are we still paying farmers not to grow it? Is that the free market at work?
Please weigh in on your opinion about farm subsidies that artificially jack up the price of food and add to the deficit at the same time.