{"id":389276,"date":"2018-12-15T15:58:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T14:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-obamacare-struck-down-as-unconstitutional-disaster-trump\/"},"modified":"2018-12-15T15:58:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T14:58:10","slug":"prison-planet-com-obamacare-struck-down-as-unconstitutional-disaster-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-obamacare-struck-down-as-unconstitutional-disaster-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb \u2018Obamacare Struck Down as Unconstitutional Disaster\u2019 \u2013 Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/us\/201812151070713687-us-judge-trump-obamacare-repeal\/\"><strong>Sputnik<\/strong><\/a><br \/>December 15, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>The US District Court for the Northern District of Texas has ruled that the Affordable Care Act, widely known as Obamacare, must be scrapped, raising concerns that 20 million US citizens might be stripped of insurance coverage as a result.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Commenting on\u00a0the decision of\u00a0the court to\u00a0invalidate Obamacare, US President Donald Trump criticised the health care system, introduced by\u00a0his predecessor, urging the legislators to\u00a0change the situation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wow, but not surprisingly, ObamaCare was just ruled UNCONSTITUTIONAL by a highly respected judge in Texas. Great news for America!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1073763695807877120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier on\u00a0Friday, US District Court Judge Reed O\u2019Connor ruled that the reform must be axed because Congress cancelled its key provision\u00a0\u2014 the tax penalty for\u00a0not complying with\u00a0the requirement to\u00a0buy insurance<\/p>\n<p>The decision was part of\u00a0a case made by\u00a020 plaintiff states who sought to\u00a0recognise the Affordable Care Act as\u00a0invalid.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As I predicted all along, Obamacare has been struck down as an UNCONSTITUTIONAL disaster! Now Congress must pass a STRONG law that provides GREAT healthcare and protects pre-existing conditions. Mitch and Nancy, get it done!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1073761497866747904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The ruling is supposed to\u00a0be appealed in\u00a0the coming days. However, the ruling was made less than\u00a024 hours before\u00a0the end of\u00a0the regular insurance purchase period for\u00a0the year ending on\u00a0December 15. Thus, it will be difficult for\u00a0consumers to\u00a0determine whether they should buy insurance if they have not already done so, and how the cost of\u00a0medical care will change if the court\u2019s decision remains in\u00a0force.Obama signed the Affordable Care Act in\u00a02010, and most of\u00a0the provisions took effect in\u00a02014. The act has faced fierce opposition from\u00a0the Republican Party. President Donald Trump has pledged to\u00a0repeal&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/obamacare-struck-down-as-unconstitutional-disaster-trump.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SputnikDecember 15, 2018 The US District Court for the Northern District of Texas has ruled that the Affordable Care Act, widely known as Obamacare, must be scrapped, raising concerns that 20 million US citizens might be stripped of insurance coverage as a result. Commenting on\u00a0the decision of\u00a0the court to\u00a0invalidate Obamacare, US President Donald Trump criticised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-389276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}