Guess what’s coming down the road....They will simply take a percentage of your paycheck just like they do for SS and Medicare. This is nothing more than medicare from birth to 65.
That was/is the End goal. Single payer. (as in taxpayer)
If healthcare represents 15% of the economy, then paying for healthcare will require at least 15% of everyone’s paychecks.
They certainly could. That's the conventional old-school way to do it as they might have done back in the day when there were socialist-lite democrats and real republicans instead of what we have now. Looking ahead I wonder why they would bother making their voters pay - at least initially. It would be easier for them to just take it from the rich, upper middle class and businesses and lock in the thresholds so they don't increase with inflation. Then over time more and more people pay it.
They are not worried about how to pay for it. They have a lock on the Presidency and SC and can do what they want. I fear they are more preoccupied over what to ram down our throats next. This SC ruling is blood in the water to these hungry sharks.
And the states that did NOT want to participate in the Obamacare exchanges will simply be billed, by the federal government, for those medical costs incurred by those signed up in the exchanges. One way or another, the red states are all going to be paying for this too now.