BREAKING: Supreme Court Upholds Individual Mandate As A Tax

[Sirveri]

316. Why would the overhead rise?

I didn't really follow that, just because they cost more... I guess that sort of makes more sense, but they're also filing less claims and thus require less workers to process those claims, also there is the previous point that they can pay their employees less and work them harder hours than government employees. But you raise an interesting point.

But my main issue is with Roberts. I'm going to look his gift horse in the mouth, because I'm pretty sure it's filled with Trojan soldiers or bombs or something.

I'm pretty sure that the Republican owned gang of Justices all talk to each other about how they're voting and why and what they hope to accomplish.

It could be that this will now be used in attack ads against Obama so the Republicans can call it a tax (though this is probably not a primary reason for his crossing the aisle and will happen anyways).
He could just be trying to restore public confidence in the court (Robert Reich hypothesis), but doesn't seem like a big enough reason.
This could be a backdoor to attacking the Commerce clause in the future
They might just like the mandate, and the best Robert could do was to kill the medicaid expansion in the red states to force those people into the private sector (I'm leaning towards this).
They could just like having the ability for the government to compel product purchases as being legal in the future for future candidates. You are now compelled to buy a charter school education. You are now compelled to buy housing. This is basically what Scalia argued about Broccoli though.

Obviously the right choice is to levy taxes, and then to use those taxes to provide services, but that's not on the table here.

You don't need Scalia and Thomas and Alito to vote in favor, 5-4 is enough to get the job done. Though I do wonder why they didn't have one of the older Justices cross the aisle in this case, then if needed they'd have more ammo for an overturn when they retired.

I fully expect that the health insurance companies are already trying to figure out loopholes in the law to exploit it. If they can't then they'll punch holes in it later on with backdoor modifications from their legion of in pocket politicians (sadly on both sides of the aisle).

And you're right I originally indicated that it was profit not overhead, I knew better but was in a rush, and for that I apologize since it was confusing.