BREAKING: Supreme Court Upholds Individual Mandate As A Tax

[caseymoz]

319. Not kidding. You just don't understand the statistic.

What you say is true mostly because most people have health insurance.

I'm informed that 16.7 percent of people in the US are without coverage.

This means if the percentage of insured declaring medical bankruptcy is less than 83.3% of all medical bankruptcies, having health insurance helps. In fact, if it's in the low fifties, it helps an awful lot if it doesn't prevent it completely.

Not only that, I think this law takes care of those with inadequate health insurance, too. Inadequate policies of, say, $10,000 are disallowed in it. So, a good percentage of the insured who would have have bankrupt without the law now won't be.

Where the hell did I say we didn't need single payer? Find where I said that. If you could quote me saying that, you may bring the argument up again. You won't find it though, because I didn't say it. Be informed I agree with you on that 100 percent about single payer, so please don't bring up that straw man again.

My point was: the Supreme Court ruling in favor of this law was infinitely better for getting single payer than having the law struck down. That's a no-brainer. If they set a precedent knocking this down, single payer would be dead for your lifetime and maybe for your children and grandchildren's lifetimes, too. Don't even fool yourself about that.

And, as I said, because we actually have a medical system now, we can adjust it and revise it into single payer. Alternately, you can't mold nothing.