Fox News’ Napolitano: Health Care Fight Could End Up Being ‘Politically Catastrophic’ for Republicans
RUSH EXCERPT:
NAPOLITANO: “For the Republicans it’s an enormous problem. I happen to think ObamaCare is unconstitutional forcing people to purchase a product in my opinion is beyond the constitutional authority of the Congress has. The court got around that by saying well, we’re taxing them. So Congress can’t order me to wear a red striped tie but they can tax me if I don’t. That’s the theory under which ObamaCare was upheld. The tax laws were changed under the Trump Administration to remove the ability of the I.R.S. To tax you for failure to get health insurance. That’s the hook on which this federal judge in Texas hung his hat for finding it unconstitutional. If the unconstitutionality of it is upheld what will the Republicans replace it with? You have 21 million people in the United States receiving government subsidized health insurance as a result of are you going to take that away from them? It will politically catastrophic even though I don’t think it should have come in the first place.”
