Obamacare Slammed With More Legal Challenges – and There’s No End in Sight
Lily Dane
Activist Post.com
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
The legal challenges to Obamacare just keep coming, and there’s no end in sight.
Here’s the rundown:
The House Judiciary Committee will conduct a hearing titled “The President’s Constitutional Duty to Faithfully Execute the Laws,” to examine whether Obama is “rewriting his own law” by using his executive powers to alter it or delay certain provisions.
Rep Robert W. Goodlatte (R-VA), chairman of the committee, says that Obama has “changed key provisions in Obamacare without congressional approval” through executive actions, including the year-long delay of the employer mandate.
In DC, a federal judge will hear oral arguments in one of several cases brought by business owners, individual consumers, and states including Indiana and Oklahoma, who say that the law does not grant the IRS the authority to provide tax credits or subsidies to people who buy insurance through the federal exchange.
The legal theory behind the subsidy cases will also be explored: that the IRS, and by extension, Obama – ignored the will of Congress, which explicitly allowed tax credits and subsidies only for those buying coverage through state exchanges.
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