A very special edition of Quotables

Reactions to the ACA decision were bouncing around the interwebs late last week. Outliers offers some of our favorites: “Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be ‘constitutional’ does not make it so. The whole thing remains unconstitutional. … It will destroy our healthcare system.”

—U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) “The right wing just had their worst smackdown since the day O was elected. The path of history continues to head toward univ health care”

—“Sicko” filmmaker and author Michael Moore on Twitter “Obama lied to the American people. Again. He said it wasn’t a tax. Obama lies; freedom dies.”

—Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Twitter “If the right wing had won this, they’d be screaming REVOLUTION in the streets. What ought we do?”

—“30 Rock” actor Alec Baldwin on Twitter “The vision that has kept me awake so many times at night as a nurse, seeing myself holding the hand of a patient while the doctor comes into the room and says that their lifesaving treatment will be denied because the Independent Payment Advisory Board deemed it unnecessary, remains in my mind.”

—Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-N.C.) at a post-decision news conference

“It’s constitutional. Bitches.” —Patrick Gaspard, executive director of the Democratic National

Committee, on Twitter “In the long run, the result will be the complete destruction of American healthcare, as the system’s problems are inevitably blamed on our ‘private’ healthcare system and a fully socialized ‘single payer’ medicine is offered up as the only cure.”

—Ayn Rand Center Executive Director Yaron Brook “We hope states choose to do the right thing. But we cannot base federal policy on hope alone. NAPH urges Congress to avert a potentially disastrous outcome for vulnerable populations by immediately re-evaluating safety net funding in light of this decision.” —The National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems,

reacting to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on Medicaid expansion “Only in America would so many overweight, diabetic people with heart disease be upset that they’re gonna have healthcare.”

—Comedian and radio talk-show host Dave Rubin on Twitter “The president intimidated Chief Justice John Roberts like Hugo Chavez intimidates the Venezuelan Supreme Court. The rule of law is now dead. ”

—Statement issued by the Heartland Institute “The real solution to America’s healthcare crisis is a Medicare-for-all, single-payer system. Until then, we will remain the only major nation that does not provide healthcare for every man, woman and child as a right of citizenship.”

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) “If anyone’s angrier than Republicans that children can’t be denied for having pre-existing conditions, it’s leukemia.”

—The satirical weekly the Onion on Twitter “This is the greatest destruction of individual liberty since Dred Scott. This is the end of America as we know it. No exaggeration.”

—Breitbart.com Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro on Twitter