interference had more to do in this case with manipulating somebody s news feed than necessarily with manipulating a voting machine, shep. shepard: peter doocy, live on capitol hill. thank you. a federal judge in texas ruling that obamacare is unconstitutional putting millions of americans health insurance at risk. the supreme court could have the final say on this. the fox business network s deidra bolton reporting live. right now, no change. whatever people has decided is the right decision for them, their family, just keep behaving the way that they are. so even on friday evening, a federal judge ruling that obamacare otherwise known as the affordable care act is unconstitutional and the judge ruling the entire law should be struck down. most saying within this could go on a few more months. the market is reacting. you have health insurance, hospital stocks are down with the rest of the markets.
united technologies. they closed marginally higher, not huge but up. i looked at health care, hospital stocks. part of the $131 billion in domestic spending, 6 billion is going towards addressing the opioid crisis. investors may be waiting for the houseboat before aggressively buying stocks in either of those groups. shannon: that can be a real hurdle in getting this done. thank you very much. up next, concerns over security practices at the u.s. northern border. first beyond our borders tonight, rescue workers in taiwan searching for survivors from an earthquake near the east coast. the magnitude 6.4 quake struck last night. at least six people were killed. 88 are missing. poland s president has signed legislation that outlaws money is country for the holocaust. the measure has drawn severe criticism from israel and resistance from the u.s. supporters say it s an attempt
would argue that that is a pro-growth, pro-job scenario because there will be a reduction in what you call the net investment income from about roughly 24% down to 20%. i don t want to ignore that, because that is really important to what happens in the future tax reform legislation, and i think the other quick thing i would just say to you, if you look at what s happening, whether it s health care stocks, hospital stocks, medical device stocks, across the board, many of them are rallying on wall street. in fact, they are up about 16% or 17% this year ahead of technology. i tell you that because there were a lot of taxes on those companies in the affordable care act, so if those reductions costs will decline that medical device companies will no longer have to pass on those costs to the consumer. so, there are some who look at this and say, this is a step toward a pro-growth, pro-job scenario. the problem is, 50% of americans
of the message dilemma and another trump s claim tweet coming up short. first, kourtney reagan. the healthcare rallying after republicans unveil the bill to repeal obamacare. dow jonhospital insurance an hospital stocks did surge though. johnsons and johnsons gained. oil trying to rebound from back-to-back sell off of a day after sinking to its lowest prices for august. crude futures climb 0.6%. we are first in business, worldwide, cnbc. what s with him?
today s oral arguments, a lot of people are openly wondering if the swing vote might not be justice roberts but anthony kennedy. at one point during the oral arguments today, justice kennedy asked a question in which he seemed very worried about the prospect of the supreme court effectively destroying the health care system in more than three dozen states with this one ruling. he said to the plaintiffs attorneys today, quote, there is a serious constitutional problem if we adopt your argument. this is my favorite data point from the whole day today. after justice kennedy said that, in the oral arguments on this case, look what happened in the outside world. look at the headline here. hello? do we have it? oh, come on. hospital stocks surge. come on, hospitals had argued all right. hospitals argued they would suffer significant harm by striking down obamacare in this case. when justice kennedy said he saw constitutional issues, hospital stocks went through the roof. hospitals rose mo