BREAKING: Supreme Court Upholds Individual Mandate As A Tax

[Bully Taw]

268. Unfortunately...

I cannot get excited about this. The ACA is not what we really need, which is a single payer system. We are just putting more money in the hands of insurance companies, and they will figure out how to whittle down what care they will offer to the people added under this program, and everyone else.

Also, I can't really celebrate because this survived SCOTUS as a tax. A tax on mostly the low income, unless they buy the insurance that they couldn't afford in the first place. The Repugs will be using this in an election year to push the President on his pledge to not raise or impose new taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 per year. Well, he may be calling it a victory, but SCOTUS called it a tax, and it WILL be imposed on those making well under $250,000 per year.

I keep feeling that I have been sold out for political reasons. we are being given a pig's ear and being told it is a silk purse. Healthcare reform was supposed to help lower-income people. This just takes more of what little money we have and puts it in the hands of the insurance industry, or the government.