you re a republican and you tried to campaign on the fact that you want to protect people with preexisting conditions, this really putts you, you know, in a corner because if this ruling were to be upheld that takes the protections away. the judge, just useful the look at the specificity of this. the judge agreed with the agreement that the law doesn t work taking out the individual mandate. you were instrumental in building this. what do you think of that reasoning? so what s interesting is that the entire law is not just dependent on the man date. the mandate is important but there was an incredible amount of the law that was built around exactly how we pay for these services, as well. so if you have to think about it, ali, it is really there needs to be some willingness to purchase the insurance. that s part of the mandate and has to be insurance that s affordable. that s the affordable part of the affordable care act and then we have to make sure that the
people wanted to sign up for obamacare or just walked away from the whole thing to prove it s not as popular but in the last election health care itself was the most important issue to most americans. so what s the worst-case scenario now? what can happen next? if a higher court upholds this ruling. oh, it s even you put out probably the most salient fact that, you know, tens of millions of people would lose health insurance but let s just talk directly to people on medicare who might comfortably think nothing changes for them. the affordable care act really redesigned in a positive way the medicare program and how we pay for care for elderly and people over the age of 65. so, this would really rip out to just put it simply, it would rip out the infrastructure, the essential highway of delivering health care and that i think is going to be the chaos and if
because he wanted to name a chief of staff to stick around. what does this say? we are at a point of trump having to appoint a deputy chief of an acting chief of staff and, again, not somebody that answers the qualification that s actually required? i think it tells you they were more decembsperate to get something in the chair than the right person. it looked desperate, pathetic, nobody s interested in being chief of staff for the long term. why trump finds it accept to believe have a chief who s acting when he didn t when ayers made that a pre-condition is anybody s guess and a formula for failure. chris, good to see you. thank you as always. thank you. chris whipple is an author of gatekeepers. all right, next, a federal judge ruled that obamacare is unconstitutional. first, a u.s. bankruptcy court
all right. welcome back. there s a lot happening in other news. north korea state media criticized stalled negotiations on sunday saying new u.s. sanctions could block the path to denuclearization forever. the commentary did not take aim at president trump directly. malaysia filed charges against goldman sachs related to a corruption scandal of billions of dollars in missing money. the u.s. justice department investigating the case and claims the stolen money landered into new york condominiums, yachts and financing for the movie the wolf of wall street. big story, the future of obamacare, officially known as the affordable care act, in question after a federal judge in texas ruled that the law is constitutional. the judge agreed with arguments of 20 states attorneys general.
not have an injunction with it and quite honestly as you mentioned it is going through a process and i hope it doesn t get past the appeals court much less to the supreme court where a lot of people on both sides of the aisle on legal, conservative and liberal scholars have said this was a really weak ruling but what s really chaotic, ali, is that if you listen to just the headlines you re enrolling in the affordable care act s insurance and thinking you lose coverage come january 1st. that s not the case as of today. i think the other story that people aren t talking about is the trump administration said enrollment is still open, we are enforcing the affordable care act and we wonder if that changes at some point. all of these things are in play leaving, you know, every day americans with a lot of questions about what s really going to happen in the next year or two. so the chaos is important because it s kind of what the administration wants and what a lot of republicans want. the