Medical Doctors for Single Payer Urge Supreme Court to Strike Down Individual Insurance Mandate

[Lydia Leftcoast]

43. I suspect that's the reason that

1) The details of the initial bill were so unpublicized, leaving the less-informed, both advocates and foes of health care reform, to believe that Obama was working on single payer. (I talked to several people during the negotiations who believed that Obama was working on a Canadian-style system.)

2) Full implementation was delayed till 2014, when either (God forbid) a Republican is in the White House or Obama can't run for another term anyway.

I'm slightly better off financially now than I was in 2009, thanks to a small inheritance, but if that hadn't happened, I would have been in very bad shape in 2014, a bit too young for Medicare, too "rich" for Medicaid or a subsidy, and too poor to pay for bronze coverage for someone of my age.

NOTE: A mandate for real health care reform, as in required enrollment in a Canadian-style system or higher taxes for a British-style system with a private option, no problem! I'd be in the first part of the line to sign up. But I already resent what I'm paying the pseudo-concerned insurance vultures for "health" insurance that's really just asset protection at this point.