{"id":2861,"date":"2011-01-31T21:01:19","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T21:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2861"},"modified":"2011-01-31T21:01:19","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T21:01:19","slug":"another_skirmis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2861","title":{"rendered":"Another Skirmish On The Road To Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another conservative judge ruled today that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/health\/2011\/01\/31\/133380005\/federal-judge-in-florida-rules-health-overhaul-violates-constitution\">Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional<\/a>. All of it. The mandate. The exchanges. The expansion of Medicaid. The protections for people with pre-existing conditions. The whole shebang. The judge&#8217;s order doesn&#8217;t explicitly stay the law, which means that implementation will will continue as this case and others like it wind their way up to Justice Kenn&#8211;er, the Supreme Court. As <i>Politico <\/i>points out, several states that are parties to the litigation against the ACA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0111\/48527.html\">are busy implementing the law<\/a> and requesting federal grants to assist their implementation efforts. As I&#8217;ve said before, these implementation efforts are likely to be near completion in most states by the time the high court decides on the merits of the challenges against the law. I have a hard time imagining the Court nullifying the law and leaving the policy landscape in chaos, but smarter people than me have tried to second-guess the Court and made to look like fools. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another conservative judge ruled today that the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional. All of it. The mandate. The exchanges. The expansion of Medicaid. The protections for people with pre-existing conditions. The whole shebang. The judge&#8217;s order doesn&#8217;t explicitly stay the law, which means that implementation will will continue as this case and others like it <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2861' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-K9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}