DID BEN NELSON DOOM OBAMACARE?

[Geee]

American Spectator:

During the oral arguments that preceded the recent appeals court ruling against the Obama administration in Halbig v. Burwell, an under-reported yet crucial discussion took place between two of the judges and counsel for the plaintiffs. Judge Harry T. Edwards pronounced himself confused as to why Congress would have concerned itself with what entity ultimately set up Obamacare’s insurance exchanges. Judge A. Raymond Randolph and attorney Michael A. Carvin did their best to enlighten the befuddled jurist:

 

JUDGE EDWARDS: I’m trying to understand … who cares who sets up the exchange?

 

JUDGE RANDOLPH: Ben Nelson …

 

MR. CARVIN: The enactors of the law …

 

JUDGE RANDOLPH: Ben Nelson cared.

 

JUDGE EDWARDS: Who cares?

 

JUDGE RANDOLPH: Ben Nelson.

MR. CARVIN: They couldn’t get to 60… Ben Nelson said we are not going to have a Federally run exchange, we are going to implement basic principles of federalism and the states are going to run those exchanges or I don’t vote for it and it doesn’t get passed.

Is this the first time you’ve read about Nelson’s misgivings? Well, it would appear that you’re not alone. Many alleged reporters who claim to have thoroughly covered the Obamacare debate from the Pleistocene era until the present are also ignorant of the role he played in determining the destiny of the exchanges. Indeed, some these “journalists” have advised their readers that there couldn’t have been any serious discussion in Congress about differing rules for state and federal exchanges because no one told them about it.

[Draggingtree]

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During the oral arguments that preceded the recent appeals court ruling against the Obama administration in Halbig v. Burwell, an under-reported yet crucial discussion took place between two of the judges and counsel for the plaintiffs. Judge Harry T. Edwards pronounced himself confused as to why Congress would have concerned itself with what entity ultimately set up Obamacare’s insurance exchanges. Judge A. Raymond Randolph and attorney Michael A. Carvin did their best to enlighten the befuddled jurist:

 

JUDGE EDWARDS: I’m trying to understand … who cares who sets up the exchange?

 

JUDGE RANDOLPH: Ben Nelson …

 

MR. CARVIN: The enactors of the law …

 

JUDGE RANDOLPH: Ben Nelson cared.

 

JUDGE EDWARDS: Who cares?

 

JUDGE RANDOLPH: Ben Nelson.

MR. CARVIN: They couldn’t get to 60… Ben Nelson said we are not going to have a Federally run exchange, we are going to implement basic principles of federalism and the states are going to run those exchanges or I don’t vote for it and it doesn’t get passed.

Is this the first time you’ve read about Nelson’s misgivings? Well, it would appear that you’re not alone. Many alleged reporters who claim to have thoroughly covered the Obamacare debate from the Pleistocene era until the present are also ignorant of the role he played in determining the destiny of the exchanges. Indeed, some these “journalists” have advised their readers that there couldn’t have been any serious discussion in Congress about differing rules for state and federal exchanges because no one told them about it.

 

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