Death, taxes and now health insurance? Having a medical plan or else paying a fine is about to become another certainty of American life, unless the Supreme Court says no.
People are split over the wisdom of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, but they are nearly united against its requirement that everybody have insurance. The mandate is intensely unpopular even though more than 8 in 10 people in the United States already are covered by workplace plans or government programs such as Medicare. When the insurance obligation kicks in, not even two years from now, most people won’t need to worry or buy anything new.
Nonetheless, Americans don’t like being told how to spend their money, not even if it would help solve the problem of the nation’s more than 50 million uninsured.
Can the government really tell us what to buy?
Read more at Official Wire. By Connie Cass, AP.
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I have NO CONFIDENCE in the SCOTUS!
The Emperor (with no clothes) has spoken and declared what he wants, not caring what the peasants/slaves desire.
http://www.petition2congress.c… Go to this website and sign the petition to investigate the eligibility of obama. We need him off the ballot and arrested for fraud.