4 thoughts on “The Law-School Opinion Coccoon”

1. The Supreme Court has ruled on the idea that Obamacare is constitutional at least
   in terms of funding medicaid increases, mandating individual coverage and
   ability to regulate the interstate trade of insurance markets.

   We will see if the supremes take the RFRA act issue.

   1. The Supreme Court has ruled on the idea that Obamacare is constitutional at least

      And they determined that it wasn’t constitutional.

      in terms of funding medicaid increases, mandating individual coverage and
      ability to regulate the interstate trade of insurance markets.

      It’s worth noting that just because the Supreme Court doesn’t find something unconstitutional doesn’t mean that it actually isn’t. If we get three more justices like Kagan and Sotomeyer, then it really won’t matter what the US Constitution says – unless there’s the very unlikely event that Congress gets ambitious enough to indict and convict justices for failing to uphold the law.

   2. They ruled Obamacare is a tax and that the government can tax people. On one hand I agree that the power to tax lies with the government but on the other I disagree that you can or should be taxed for existing.

      Just remember when you pay your insurance premiums that you are paying a tax and not purchasing a product. Certainly the largest single tax increase in American history and combined with all of the other tax increases is rather astounding but raising taxes didn’t solve all of our problems as was claimed they would.

      1. You can argue it’s a bad tax, you can argue it’s bad policy, but, it is constitutional.

         Now i find the RFRA argument specious. Corporations have no religious rights.

         Corporations are created as a legal fiction to eliminate personal responsibility.

         How they have personal rights and values when they have no responsibility, eludes me.

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