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Originally Posted by blueash
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.
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Since when does a Supreme Court Justice have the purview to rewrite a bill in order to deem it's provision "constitutional". The guiding principle of the Supreme Court majority in this instance was to "re-imagine" the bill in order to find it constitutional. This was not, and is not, their place in government.
When you pay a tax, where does this money go? The "taxes" for this bill go to insurance companies. Think about that for a second.
Imagine the next time you go into Publix the cashier assesses a charge of $3.00 for milk. You tell her "I didn't buy milk"; the cashier informs you that the "tax" for not buying milk is $3.00. The government now has the precedent in this new era of regulating the "absence of commerce" to actually do this.
(Oh don't be silly, they won't do this. Really?; what gives you that faith after what's happened......If you don't like the milk analogy, just make it any product you imagine a buttinsky politician thinking you should have to use for your health, or for any reason, and thus buy)
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