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Old 06-29-2012, 06:28 AM
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Originally Posted by RichieLion View Post
All the costs of this, the biggest spending bill in history, are now validated as taxes the by the Supreme Court.

It's self explanatory.
No, the only part of the Law that Roberts used to find the ACA constitutional revolved around the issue of whether Congress could impose a tax penalty on those who did not purchase insurance. The rest of the Law does not have anything to do with the taxation authority of Congress. Keep in mind that the only persons who will incur this penalty are those who are financially able to purchase health insurance either directly from a carrier or from the individual state exchanges which are supposed to lower the cost of coverage by providing an opportunity to have more persons in the pool making a larger group. Florida has done nothing to get started on setting up their exchange.
Those that cannot afford to purchase coverage will get Federal assistance to offset the cost.
In Massachusetts 1% (one percent) of the citizens are seeing a tax penalty for not purchasing the mandated health coverage.