Appeals Court Decision on Health Insurance Mandate - Revisited

This issue is eventually going to the Supreme Court, and while I have no influence there, I still feel compelled to argue against what the Republicans like to deride as "Obamacare." From time to time, I do indeed find myself in alignment with a Republican argument, although not necessarily for the same reasons. I've already posted my argument. Here's John Caruso's opinion, which I also encorse (after all, it's the same as mine):

I've talked to liberals who aren't thrilled with Obama's health care plan but nonetheless think it must still be worthwhile, because a) after all, Obama likes it, and b) it at least does something. The fact that the something it does is to entrench corporate power over health care in the US to the point where it would take a nuclear bomb to dislodge it, not to mention to put a lengthy debate about universal healthcare off the national agenda for decades, either doesn't occur to them or is subsumed by their knee-jerk partisan instinct to at least politely nibble at whatever shit sandwich the Democrats happen to be feeding them at any given moment.

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So if Congress wants to go back and handle health care the right way—by making Medicaid or some other form of federally-funded health care available to everyone in the nation—there's no reason they can't do it. For people who'd actually like to see universal healthcare in this country within the next few decades, this decision couldn't possibly have been better.

  Distant Ocean

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.