Activist court blamed for Obamacare ruling

The Supreme Court has acted on Obamacare regarding subsidies for the federally run health-insurance exchange. In their 6 to 3 decision the court ruled that the “intent” of the Congress was to give subsidies to every state regardless of whether they had their own exchange.

The problem with that decision is there was no combined intent or decision by the Congress. Obamacare was passed behind closed Democratic doors without one Republican being seated in any of these discussions, so how can there be an “intent” by the Congress?

Justice Scalia, gave an honest and straight-forward opinion on what an “activist court” can do, and that is not what the Founding Fathers had in mind.

First it was a tax and then, no it’s not a tax, and finally yes it is a tax. This lends credence to the thought that perhaps the Supreme Court should have term limits as well as age limits — for unless a Republican president and a Republican controlled Congress is elected in 2016, this law will stand for quite a long time.

Which leaves open questions about the high cost of owning a policy, the lack of doctors to attend to the needs of patients, the upsurge in nurse practitioners and the lack of hospitals and medical centers to participate in Obamacare, and it still leaves about 30 million people without insurance.

But the next step will be to insure all those illegals we have in the country, raising taxes on the wealthy and business corporations, which will lead to the shutting down of jobs and an economic downturn for the nation. We will all wind up like Greece.

I am beginning to wonder, when will We the People ever mean something again in this nation? —Jim Garvey, Kalispell