California Endowment Loves SCOTUS Obamacare Ruling
Just as a reminder that the individual mandate (which Reason's Ron Bailey made the case for way back in 2004, before women had the right to vote) was once a bipartisan fave, here's how former members of the Schwarzenegger Administration are celebrating out in California:
“Today’s decision by the United States Supreme Court is an affirmation that Americans, regardless of age, income, or pre-existing condition, are entitled to and deserve quality, affordable health coverage, including the more than seven million Californians who are uninsured”, said Daniel Zingale, Senior Vice President of The California Endowment. “For our state, today’s decision is both a fiscal blessing and a clear signal that there should be no more excuses. Covering the uninsured currently costs our state nearly $10 billion per year and we need to continue to move full speed ahead to ensure that millions of Californians take advantage of the new options and consumer protections provided by the law.”
Zingale headed up Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's unsuccessful effort to institute a universal health insurance requirement in California, though confusingly his official job was as something like a chief of staff to first lady of California Maria Shriver Schwarzenegger (a Democrat by birth and nurture).
Other Democrats in other not-too-sovereign states dance the National Federation of Business et al v. Sebelius shuffle:
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Was there an important court ruling today or something?
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Here's hoping at least Germany gives me something to celebrate about today.
Come on Deutschland, please beat that country populated by Epi's dirty, dirty Daygos
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Germany will go down harder than the Hindenburg*. Viva la Italia!
*Well, probably not, if they continue playing the way they have been.
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Deutschland Uber Alles!!!!
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Deutschland Uber Alles!!!!
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Even the squirrels agree...
Bier Vino
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That should be Bier (is greater than) Vino. Stupid html
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Americans, regardless of age, income, or pre-existing condition, are entitled to and deserve quality, affordable health coverage,
if income level is a non-starter, then what does "affordable" have to do with anything? Seriously, once it is decided that one person can have access to another's expertise and the first person's ability to pay is immaterial, haven't we 1) ensured a diminished supply of that expertise and 2) quite possibly devalued whatever expertise remains?
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Americans, regardless of age, income, or pre-existing condition, are entitled to and deserve quality, affordable health coverage
Says someone who doesn't produce even an iota of the massive mountain of wealth that would be required to pay for this boondoggle.
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The story that swallowed the blogosphere. Think of all the cop-shot dogs who will not get their day on Hit and Run because of this.
Thanks a lot, Supreme Court! -
"It is an especially good day for the state of Vermont, which stands to receive hundreds of millions of dollars in additional federal funds to help our state achieve universal health care."
~Bernie Sanders VTFrom where?
Ethan Allen would've fucked Bernie up, burned down his house, and then said:
"Go your way now, and complain to that damned scoundrel your Governor, God damn your Governor, Laws, King, Council, and Assembly"