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Maine Attorney General William Schneider on why the health-care law is unconstitutional.
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-- off the -- States are having a practical problem with the health care loss.
-- -- completely.
In broad stability is to implement the darn -- only fourteen states establishing.
Mandated health care exchanges so far many others are open to Supreme Court should step on the long before they have to fork over some -- That they really don't have to -- My next -- is a Republican attorney general one of those fighting to stop the law before it starts -- attorney general William Schneider joining me right now on the phone.
Mr.
attorney general thank you it's split here.
We think this stands after you and your colleagues.
Made this last and final case before the Supreme Court.
I think we made a tremendous gates that the years that the president Obama's Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional.
Our case -- that it's unconstitutional on two different Brown's.
Individual mandate -- reporters every American to go out of the marketplace.
And buy a health insurance policy from a commercial vendor.
And also the -- Medicaid expansion.
Which which unconstitutionally.
Year robs states of their authority under Medicaid.
-- I think the latter was sort of like.
To 800 pound gorilla in the room that no one really it is -- appreciated.
Just a practical nature.
Of getting this implemented individual states on the Medicaid front -- leaving aside the mandate issue.
I think the justices really all of it sounds like -- on this Democrats -- the -- -- but very you know.
They all seem to be very ended this subject when reminded -- It was very actually I was there today for the argument.
And this is an issue that.
A lot of commentators have written off they base that none of the lower or global or not on the mandate here right right right.
But -- popular I can tell you for being there at that the justices had very penetrating.
Questions -- the president the two parties.
About the dedicate to expansion.
And I think the fact that they were so active.
And that they were asking so many penetrating questions so that they were really really -- that this issue.
On the.
Just stepping back creditors general it is it is Europe belief now.
They -- and I know.
You know -- hearings we we don't wanna extrapolate too much from from these sort of things that -- that the media does.
Debt to the court would effectively.
Shoot down at least the mandate issue.
That happened to -- is.
Does that shoot down their health care law itself what deterrent.
That's right this morning's argument was on sever ability.
And the question is if the court -- either the -- individual mandate.
Or the Medicaid expansion unconstitutional.
Then does do they have to find the rest of the law unconstitutional.
And our argument is -- they do because.
Congress created this whole.
Affordable Care Act as a system.
It's got a system that works on the demand side.
With the individual mandate to make sure there's enough demand for help the church but it also had a lot of provisions that work on the supply side.
To make sure there's a large enough supply of the church to meet the demands.
If you take away the demand side it leaves just the supply side of the -- laws on bear on balance been untenable.
Giveaway weren't so we did this right we just on down the road a couple of years old and already again yeah normal -- -- General thank you very much great pleasure.
