Would you like to see the Supreme Court strike down the individual mandate?

[LooseWilly]

25. Employers can, however, get a waiver to allow them to provide shoddy coverage far below aca minimums

based on the "burden" that would otherwise fall on the employees were the company to offer coverage that meets the law's standards to their employees.

There is no mandate that the minimum health benefits of the law be charged in a progressive fashion based on employees' wages, in a like-manner to income taxes which are progressive... and so the "progressive" answer to low wage employees is to simply give the companies a waiver so they don't have to provide, and neitherwise does an insurer have to provide, "full" benefits to low-wage employees... but employers who provide sub-minimum benefits with a waiver do not have to pay a penalty.

Likewise, if an employees has "health insurance" (sub-minimum benefits provided by virtue of a waiver), then that employee does not qualify for any government subsidized programs.

Voilá — shitty sub-minimum benefits for the "wage slave" working class, and if you are laid off or what have you— and find yourself desperate enough to take one of those shitty jobs... then you are mandated to pay whatever the insurance company (in collaboration with your employer) charges. If you try to "opt out" of the sub-minimum benefit plan, then you will not qualify for a government run system... you will pay a tax penalty on your already anemic pay.

Bejesus, what a brilliant system...