I really don’t know what to believe anymore. Every thing seems spun.
It is. Everything in this country now is pure theater; a giant con job.
Yeah, my emotions and thinking on this has been all over the map today. Anybody who claims they understand exactly how to assess this with precision at this point is unaware of unknown unknowns, to coin a phrase.
It will take a little time to sort out the way things stand now, but the thing is the game is afoot, and the score will keep changing for a while. It could be a couple of yrs, with electoral battles and much legal wrangling, before the ACA is either issued a clean bill of health or read the last rites!
I need to point out the Daily News repeats a lie about the time of the origin of the individual mandate.
It was the late 1980s and not simply a response to HillaryCare while that's where the concept became more visible.
The mandate, requiring every American to purchase health insurance, appeared in a 1989 published proposal by Stuart M. Butler of the conservative Heritage Foundation called "Assuring Affordable Health Care for All Americans," which included a provision to "mandate all households to obtain adequate insurance." Source