During the Senate’s struggles to cobble together some semblance of a piece of unconstitutional legislation they can tout as “health care reform”, the public option fell off the table.
Good news.
Or is it?
The “individual mandate”, the most particularly unconstitutional tidbit designed to force everyone to buy health insurance, subject to criminal prosecution by the IRS if you fail to pay the tax penalty for non-compliance, is still in place.
Which means that while the Democrats run around like Chicken Littles wringing their pseudo-compassionate hands over the abhorrant profits of those Evil Insurance Companies aka corporate oligarchies, they intend on forcing those who can’t afford to buy health insurance in the private sector today to buy health insurance in the private sector tomorrow or else levy tax penalties and jail people when those tax penalties can’t be paid.
Do they plan on claiming an increase in “jobs created or saved” when we then need to build more jails? Or is this their idea of providing affordable housing for their constituents?