Quote of the Day
We were very careful when we crafted this law…. There might be parts of it that might be struck down. But there is at the end of it what is called a severability clause, that says if parts are stuck down, that doesn’t strike down the whole law.
— Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL), ABC News interview
Of course, Sen. Nelson is completely wrong. Hat tip to Chris Jacobs.
I heard that the absence of a severability clause in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was due to the fact that insurance regulations (guaranteed issue / community rating) has to be coupled with an individual mandate to prevent the insurance market from collapsing under the weight of people gaming the system in the individual mandate was struck down. But, then again, there are other theories that the lack of a severability clause was merely an oversight by the Democratic majority staff while trying to ram the ACA through Congress in as little a time as possible.
Minor correction: Florida’s Senator, quoted in the article, is Bill Nelson. Ben Nelson is the Democratic Senator from Nebraska.
This is actually very funny.
I just can’t find much to laugh about about. I can only shake my head.
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