BREAKING: Supreme Court Upholds Individual Mandate As A Tax

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126. That's a reasonable explanation that I like much better than the way I'd been looking at it.

I still think that this is the wrong approach to our healthcare system crisis. Instead of pooling everybody's taxes and providing universal healthcare for all, we're forcing people to purchase healthcare access from for-profit corporations. It's a bad approach, but it's the one we've had for decades. This is just the next logical step in it.

I'm relieved that the Supreme Court upheld this law, even though I think it is a flawed and fundamentally wrong-headed approach to the problem. It's the only approach we've got for now, though.

I believe that Roberts voted for this to support corporations. I believe that the other four justices voted for it to support Obama and the Democrats. It's interesting to me that Kennedy voted against it. The entire Supreme Court is one politicized mess. I wish that we could fire them all and start over. I wish that we could start over with a better approach to healthcare in this country. If wishes were horses...