BREAKING: Supreme Court Upholds Individual Mandate As A Tax

[Atypical Liberal]

315. Personally, I think this may not be the great news it is cracked up to be.

Let me preface - I'm all for socialized health care and believe we should have a single-payer system like Canada does. My wife is Canadian as is her whole family and I'm all for it. I'm thankful my children are Canadian by their mother.

But I'm not very excited about this mandated insurance coverage.

I lost my job back in the beginning of May. COBRA insurance for my family would have cost $900 a month. Alabama unemployment pays a maximum of $265 a week. COBRA would be barely affordable if we paid no other bills but it with the unemployment money. And of course you have to pay for things like your house payment and food out of that money.

So now the government is going to tell me that I have to buy insurance that I can't afford?

Moreover, I think that by passing this as a TAX this is going to seriously hurt President Obama as there goes his argument that he won't raise taxes on anyone making less than $250K a year. I already heard Republicans crowing this on NPR this evening on the way home from work.