Health Care Reform and the Courts

I am not persuaded, in the least, that without the mandate insurance premiums will NECESSARILY go up. That was the argument of weak-willed, disingenuous, captured Senate Democrats, supported by the White House, doing the bidding of the insurance companies, who were salivating at the prospect of millions of new customers. The honest way to keep premiums from going up was to create a non-profit competitive insurance program. I am a progressive through and through and I have always felt the mandate was both despicable and unconstitutional. I will not shed one tear if the courts deem it to be so. If that failure leads to outrage and a re-examination of other, less corrupt, more citizen-friendly ways to force down insurance costs, like single payer, for example, it could be the best thing that ever happened to the health care reform cause.

Agreed. Medicare for all. See Krugman's discussions.