health ruling thursday

[Riot]

The interesting trick is that the individual mandate is a 100% Republican-created idea for self-responsibility and self-pay. "Everyone buys his own insurance, and stops freeloading off the rest of us"

The insurance companies loved it, as it gives them millions of new customers.

Republicans have spent 25 years activing pushing for the individual mandate in health care, supported by the insurance companies. Yes: Republicans have spent the last 25 years pushing to force every American that can afford it to buy health insurance: "Just like auto insurance", the GOP used to argue. "We don't want to pay for their visits to the ER when they don't have insurance", the GOP said.

The only reason Obama dropped single-payer so readily (much to the consternation of the left), and went with the individual mandate, was because he thought he'd then get Republican support for their 100% Republican health-care plan. Wrong. The GOP were out to screw him, so they abandoned their own health care mandate plan they'd supported and pushed for decades.

But it will be interesting to see what the conservative Supremes say about the Heritage Foundations 100% Republican "individual mandate".