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In reply to the discussion: Want my support for the ACA? Repeal the mandate. [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,018 posts)So, I think the argument is moot.
It is also moot because you'd have to go far out of your way to make such a "mandate" to come out of post tax dollars.
It is also invalid because we would get actual care instead of an admission pass (plus ca$h on delivery) to access to care.
All mandates are not created equal, just because one scheme is sensible doesn't mean any possible permutation is and vice versa.
I'm fine with shared responsibility to accomplish large aims but we have a system to do that called levying taxes. The thing is a perversion and a very dangerous precedent.
The current structure dictates entering into a contract with a private, for profit, and predatory cartel as a condition of being alive paid with after tax dollars. Seems utterly fucked up. The government uses tax money to hire vendors all day, everyday so such a bizarre arrangement isn't required in any way.
No, it must be like this to work some mishmash scheme out and then only with the often criminal Supreme Court stepping in and pulling a Matrix like edit/delete job on clearly and repeatedly expressed legislative intent and somehow redefined the penalty as a tax to keep it from going down even as they gutted one of the legs of the stool.
This mandate is bad law and stupid governance despite being the foundation of a law that will help a lot of people. This is not the way to execute the aim.