My friend Wendy is DEAD: she couldn't buy broccoli

[julian09]

40. The supreme court is mandating us with insurance to pay for health care for those who don't have ins

We can always grow broccoli, borrow some, steal it from neighbors yard; if we can't afford to buy it. Can't do that with insurance, insurance is the currency with which to buy health CARE.
Broccolli isn't the only food source and cancer isn't the only disease but health insurance is the means to procure health CARE, be it an apple or broccoli, not every cure is the same. Collectively mandating us to subsidize the uninsured, who go to emergency room, rather than doctors office and state and fed employees through taxes, is just as much a mandate as an individual mandate.
If the medical profession is to treat the uninsured and indigent shouldn't patients be required to participate in the risk pool, lowering costs for everyone including themselves.