The Supreme Court seemed likely to uphold a key preventive-care provision of the Affordable Care Act in a case heard Monday.
Conservative justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, along with the court’s three liberals, appeared skeptical of arguments that Obamacare’s process for deciding which services must be fully covered by private insurance is unconstitutional.
The case could have big ramifications for the law’s preventive care coverage requirements for an estimated 150 million Americans. Medications and services that could be affected include statins to prevent heart disease, lung cancer screenings, HIV-prevention drugs and medication to lower the chance of breast cancer for high-risk women.
I hadn’t really thought about how this move by Obama may have unwittingly pushed the Overton window way to the right…
Republicans were in the throes of racist rage during Obama’s tenure, and they hated everything he proposed and defined themselves by opposing everything he wanted to do.
Obama, being clever, takes the GOP’s own health care plan, and turns around and sells it to them.
If it were president Mitt Romney that proposed it, it would have gotten support. Hell, even if it were a Democratic white dude, it would have been doable.
But because it came from Obama, they had to define themselves by their opposition to their own plan. Pushing them (permanently, it seems) further right on the topic of health care.