Today, in response to the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision that finds the Affordable Care Act constitutional, Tea Party and GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann spoke on CNN and insisted Obamacare is still unconstitutional, despite the high court’s ruling. Bachmann also labeled the John Roberts’ Court an “activist” court, and claimed the health care ruling is “an even more far-reaching decision that anyone had expected or imagined.”
Via The Hill:
Bachmann heatedly disagreed with the high court’s 5-4 decision on the mandate, ruling that Congress has the authority to enforce the healthcare law’s individual mandate, which will require most U.S. taxpayers to buy insurance or pay a penalty. The Tea Party leader predicted that not only will the nation be swept into an economic “black hole” because of the law, but also argued the Affordable Care Act was still unconstitutional in her eyes.
“This is clearly unconstitutional,” she said. “There is no basis in the Constitution for the government to have this level of history-making expansion of power. Because what this means, for the first time in the history of the country, Congress can force Americans to purchase any product, any service that Congress wants them to, which determines the price and we are forced to, which is a denial of liberty.
“We will never be the same.”
Watch the video at The Hill.
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This is hilarious coming from the person who claimed that vaccinations cause autism. She really understands a lot about healthcare!
Michele Bachmann is an ideologue and an embarrassment NOT a constitutional scholar.
Seriously woman get a clue…What about the ruling doesn't she understand.
BUT personally I don't agree with this ruling at all. This will do nothing but increase medical costs, line the bloated coffers of the insurance companies and now the US will spend billions of dollars fighting it in the house, the senate and in the states. And I will still not have insurance or access to adequate medical care.
This wasn't the answer but the republicans had nothing at all.
Except, judicial activism is when the Court overturns a law.
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