"U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor in Fort Worth agreed with a coalition of Republican states led by Texas that he had to eviscerate the Affordable Care Act, the signature health-care overhaul by President Barack Obama, after Congress last year zeroed out a key provision -- the tax penalty for not complying with the requirement to buy insurance," reported Bloomberg.
The ruling immediately infuriated Democrats who believe that government has the right to force citizens to purchase insurance products they largely don't want. The entire basis of the ACA is unconstitutional and was only passed because U.S. Supreme Court Justice Roberts was coerced into declaring the Obamacare non-compliance penalties to be a "tax." When the U.S. Congress zeroed out that tax as part of a tax reform package, the entire justification for SCOTUS declaring the ACA to be constitutional evaporated.
As Bloomberg explains:
Texas and an alliance of 19 states argued to the judge that they’ve been harmed by an increase in the number of people on state-supported insurance rolls. They claimed that when Congress last year repealed the tax penalty for the so-called individual mandate, it eliminated the U.S. Supreme Court’s rationale for finding the ACA constitutional in 2012. The Texas judge agreed.
Judge O'Conner, who issued the rule eviscerating Obamacare, explained the logic behind the ruling, saying, "Congress stated many times unequivocally — through enacted text signed by the president — that the individual mandate is ‘essential’ to the ACA... And this essentiality, the ACA’s text makes clear, means the mandate must work ‘together with the other provisions’ for the Act to function as intended."
This means Obamacare has finally been put to death in a long-needed mercy killing.
President Trump celebrated the decision as "Great news for America!"
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1073763695807877120
The ruling also means that the late Sen. John McCain, a vindictive traitor who betrayed America in order to personally spite Donald Trump, has failed yet again, even after his death. With ACA overturned, McCain's refusal to vote for the repeal and replacement of Obamacare has become a moot point, rendering his attempt to thwart the Trump administration largely irrelevant.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1073761497866747904
This ruling will be appealed and is headed to the U.S. Supreme Court. There, the two new justices appointed by President Trump -- Gorsuch and Kavanaugh -- are widely expected to uphold the district ruling, confirming that Obamacare has always been unconstitutional.
Obamacare has always been a fraud, and just like everything promoted by Democrats, it was only achieved through an astonishing level of coordinated deception, public relations spin and outright fraud. Remember, "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor?"
It has always been a lie from the very start. Obamacare has finally been defeated. Next step? Arrest and indict Barack Obama for treason, international money laundering, illegal spying on U.S. citizens and acts of terrorism deliberately committed against the United States of America (such as Operation Fast & Furious, an Obama scheme to criminalize firearms in America).