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"A federal appeals court in Atlanta on Friday struck down a key provision of the Obama administration's health care reform law, ruling that Congress exceeded its authority in mandating that most Americans buy health insurance by 2014 or face a penalty."

And rightfully so.

Finally, the Supreme Court does something right. From the beginning I argued that the individual mandate was Unconstitutional because it is in effect a tax, and tax bills must originate in the House of Representatives, not the House or Lords, er, Senate.

The Court went a step further and said that the provision exceeds the authority of Congress, which is a good thing because the "tax" was a sneaky one that went to private companies rather than a public option.

The individual mandate was the most evil part of the bill. It basically tried to f' every young adult to subsidize older, more expensive users. Given how in debt the Millennials are, this bill would have killed them. It also had the effect of screwing over anybody who changes jobs frequently like software developers and pretty much most of the Millennials in any field.

Finally, the provision was essentially a gift to the corrupt big insurance companies who are 90% of the problem.

The Supreme Court has not heard or ruled on the case Dan.

shrekgrinch says

Cool!

Now lets go fully socialist single payer! C'mon! Let's see who has the balls in Congress to vote for that.

Bernie Sanders and Dennis Kucinich. Sanders actually played a major part in getting single payer health insurance implemented in Vermont a few months ago.

Ah, yes. The article does say an "federal appeals court". Good catch.

It's really amazing how wrong Dan is in every assertion he makes above.

Dan8267 says

From the beginning I argued that the individual mandate was Unconstitutional because it is in effect a tax, and tax bills must originate in the House of Representatives

PPACA is H.R.3590.

Dan8267 says

exceeds the authority of Congress, which is a good thing because the "tax" was a sneaky one that went to private companies rather than a public option

The tax, should it survive Kennedy's veto, will be levied by the IRS and goes to the UST.

Dan8267 says

The individual mandate was the most evil part of the bill. It basically tried to f' every young adult to subsidize older, more expensive users

Actually premiums are rated on age.

Dan8267 says

It also had the effect of screwing over anybody who changes jobs frequently like software developers and pretty much most of the Millennials in any field.

Huh?

Dan8267 says

the provision was essentially a gift to the corrupt big insurance companies who are 90% of the problem.

Actually the insurance cos are bound to deliver health care at 15-20% margins, including profits. This is a start. The real cost centers are the profits of hospitalization services reap -- that's the long pole in the tent between us and the eurosocialists that have half our per-capita costs.