The biggest problem with the healthcare law is that it IS a Dem law. - Edit 1
Before modification by Joel at 01/02/2011 01:56:52 PM
I highly doubt anyone on this site has anything new to say about this issue. I had a whole response ready just by reading your headline, and that was because we've had the same conversation EVERY SINGLE TIME you have declared the death of Nationalized Health Care. (Out of curiosity, how many times has that happened, now? At least ten times before it passed, and how often since?)
So let's make it interesting, shall we? Say, our conservative friends make a $10 donation to the next Democrat to run for President after the decision if Health Care stands, and us Democrats contribute $10 to the GOP Candidate if it is struck down.
So who is in? Every other time Health Care has died, reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated. I like my odds.
So let's make it interesting, shall we? Say, our conservative friends make a $10 donation to the next Democrat to run for President after the decision if Health Care stands, and us Democrats contribute $10 to the GOP Candidate if it is struck down.
So who is in? Every other time Health Care has died, reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated. I like my odds.
Which is to say, a "New Left" law that does little for anyone who actually needs help but allows its authors to SAY they did something if no one bothers to look too closely, while the various corporate interests who ACTUALLY benefit look on and smile. Seriously, has the number of people who actually got healthcare they otherwise would not have topped 2000 yet? Out of 300,000,000? When we are spending $1,000,000,000,000 in taxpayer money--plus whatever the price tag is for those mandated to buy insurance they cannot afford but ineligible for a subsidy to cover it all? You may lose your pool simply because insurance lobby money has no influence over the SCOTUS.
The real question is how many similar tax penalties will go to the courts if the SCOTUS DOES overturn the law on that basis though doing so would essentialy require them to establish it as a direct tax, which seems difficult to do, or simply admit that they are overturning a law passed by Congress and signed by the President simply because they dislike it.