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Opinion by JENNIFER WALKER ELROD, Circuit Judge. A dissenting opinion was filed by King, Circuit Judge. At 44: In NFIB, the individual mandate—most naturally read as a command to purchase insurance—was saved from unconstitutionality because it could be read together with the shared responsibility payment as an option to purchase insurance or pay a tax. It could be read this way because the shared responsibility payment produced revenue. It no longer does so. Therefore, the most straightforward reading applies: the mandate is a command. Using that meaning, the individual mandate is unconstitutional. Post Comment   Private Reply   Ignore Thread   Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 10. #9. To: nolu chan (#0) Obamacare had two parts -- an individual mandate to purchase health insurance and a penalty(tax) if you didn't. Because those two parts were tied together thereby giving the citizens a choice, the USSC ruled that Obamacare was constitutional. When Congress removed the penalty(tax) in in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, all that was left in Obamacare was the individual mandate -- meaning that the individual mandate to purchase health insurance was now a command, not a choice. Because of that, the mandate was ruled unconstitutional. misterwhite  posted on  2019-12-20   11:45:14 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #10. To: misterwhite (#9) Obamacare had two parts -- an individual mandate to purchase health insurance and a penalty(tax) if you didn't. In the original SCOTUS decision, the Court a rule of constitutional construction which held that among competing possible interpretations, an interpretation held to be constitutional will be taken. Thus, Roberts CJ found that the individual was unconstitutional as a penalty, but constitutional as a tax, and adopted the interpretation that it was a tax. Subsequent legislation reduced any possible penalty to zero, eliminating any possibility of the so-called tax to generate any revenue. With the Obamacare law having been amended to eliminate the revenue generating provision, the interpretation of the individual mandate as a tax was eliminated, and it reverted to being a penalty under the commerce clause. However, as a penalty under the commerce clause, it was clearly unconstitutional and a nullity. nolu chan  posted on  2019-12-20   18:18:01 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   Replies to Comment # 10. #11. To: nolu chan (#10) Thus, Roberts CJ found that the individual was unconstitutional as a penalty, but constitutional as a tax, and adopted the interpretation that it was a tax. I understand. But the Democrats presented and passed Obamacare as containing no new taxes. Sure, there was a small penalty imposed on those unpatriotic Americans not participating in this wondrous program, but those were probably Republicans anyways. Justice Roberts was correct, BUT it was not within his power to change legislation to make it constitutional. It should have been sent back to Congress with the instruction to change the wording from "penalty" to "tax" such that the American people were presented with the truth. If it passed with that wording, so be it. misterwhite  posted on  2019-12-21 10:32:32 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   End Trace Mode for Comment # 10. Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest

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