SCOTUS to rule on Affordable Care Act next summer.....
I'm of the opinion that the ACA is better than what existed before but am concerned about the "individual mandate" issue.
Being forced to purchase a sub-standard product from a corporation is not the way I would have done things. A single payer system, something along the lines of how France does it, would have been the best route.
I think the SCOTUS wll rule in favor of the ACA because at the end of the day the ACA is a windfall for the insurance industry and everyone knows right-wingers love it when corporations get locked in profits via government mandates.
3. Supreme Court finds a way to uphold the mandate and strip the expanded Medicaid provisions
In addition, they might strip a few other provisions if they benefit the people over the corporations' bank accounts.
Their distorted, twisted court ruling will not be paid any attention to by the overwhelming majority of Americans so they will do whatever the insurance companies and the health care companies and Wall Street want them to do.
I can imagine future laws based on this -- an education bill that requires everyone to own a Kindle and buy five e-books per year (from the approved list) or pay a $75 tax. It's kind of scary to imagine what the other side could do with this power.
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