Health Challenge

From Yahoo:

"U.S. judge hands win to Republicans in Obamacare challenge"

A U.S. judge on Thursday handed a victory to congressional Republicans who challenged the implementation of a provision of President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law involving reimbursements from the government to private health insurers. U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer, based in Washington, ruled that the Obama administration cannot spend funds Congress did not appropriate in reimbursing insurance companies for reductions they are required to make under the law to customers' out-of-pocket medical payments. Collyer said the administration has spent "billions of dollars" on such reimbursements since January 2014. The ruling will not have an immediate effect on the 2010 law, considered Obama's signature domestic policy achievement, because the judge stayed the ruling pending appeal. As part of the expected appeal, the administration is likely to press its argument that the House does not have legal standing to sue. The case focuses on a cost-sharing provision of Obamacare that requires insurers to reduce deductibles and co-pays. Insurers are supposed to be reimbursed for these costs by the federal government. The Obama administration has interpreted the provision as a type of federal spending that does not have to be explicitly authorized by Congress, but the House Republicans who filed the challenge disagreed. The House Republicans argued that the administration's action violated the U.S. Constitution because it is the legislative branch, not the executive branch, that authorizes government spending. The judge rejected the Obama administration's contention that the appropriation should be viewed as permanent because the alternative interpretation would lead to "absurd economic, fiscal and healthcare policy results."

^ Any time something in Obamacare is shot-down by the courts is a win for the decaying healthcare system and those who have to use it (of course because of Obama EVERYONE is now FORCED to use it.) It's good to see that people and the courts are starting to question some of the things Obama has done and is doing while in office. He has done a lot to find loop-holes and change the meaning of words to suite his own agenda. It is because of his ultra liberal stance and his lack (even after two terms) of knowledge in domestic and international issues that the current Presidential Election is been the ultra conservative and the ultra liberal. I don't like either of those groups as they tend to be too one-sided and not care about anything but themselves. I am liberal on some issues and conservative on others. I have always said I support healthcare reform, but do not think Obamacare was the right way to do it - putting a Band-Aid on a sinking ship rather than fixing that ship. ^

https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-judge-hands-win-republicans-obamacare-challenge-164636939.html