{"id":36554,"date":"2021-06-17T18:13:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T01:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36554"},"modified":"2021-06-17T18:13:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T01:13:57","slug":"takeaways-on-the-supreme-courts-obamacare-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36554","title":{"rendered":"Takeaways on the Supreme Court&#8217;s Obamacare decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In what has become something of a Washington tradition, the Supreme Court again upheld the Affordable Care Act on Thursday, in the third major case from Republican challengers to reach the high court.<\/p>\n<p>The margin this time was larger, 7-2, as the High Court appears less and less interested in revisiting the health care law through the judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>Some takeaways:<\/p>\n<p><em>This could be the last gasp of repeal efforts<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There were some fairly resigned statements from GOP senators:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s been my public view for some time that the Affordable Care Act is largely baked into the health care system in a way that it&#8217;s unlikely to change or be eliminated,\u201d said Sen.\u00a0Roy Blunt\u00a0(Mo.), a member of Senate GOP leadership.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Supreme Court was fairly united\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The margin of victory for the health law was fairly large, with even more conservative justices such as\u00a0Clarence Thomas,\u00a0Amy Coney Barrett,\u00a0Brett Kavanaugh\u00a0and John Roberts ruling to uphold the law, joining the opinion from liberal Justice\u00a0Stephen Breyer.<\/p>\n<p><em>What is the Republican health care message now?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Republican health care message for years was summed up with the simple slogan \u201crepeal and replace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But now those efforts have failed in Congress, in 2017, and have failed for a third time in the courts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In what has become something&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36555,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36554\/revisions\/36555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}