My co-worker has a son who just graduated from a liberal college. He and all his social contacts seem to believe that health care will be free now.
Here’s a quote from the Oral Arguments presented to the Supreme Cout:
JUSTICE ALITO: But isn’t that a very small part of what the mandate is doing? You can correct me if these figures are wrong, but it appears to me that the CBO has estimated that the average premium for a single insurance policy in the non-group market would be roughly $5,800 in — in 2016.
Respondents — the economists have supported — the Respondents estimate that a young, healthy individual targeted by the mandate on average consumes about $854 in health services each year. So the mandate is forcing these people to provide a huge subsidy to the insurance companies for other purposes that the act wishes to serve, but isn’t — if those figures are right, isn’t it the case that what this mandate is really doing is not requiring the people who are subject to it to pay for the services that they are going to consume? It is requiring them to subsidize services that will be received by somebody else.”
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They are correct - it will be free - after they buy the $700 mandated/tax health control policy. Also free will be the triage, the hours or days wait in the waiting room to see the doctor, the procedure - if their provider qualifies them in the correct age/price range, the pain pills, and the euthanasia pill when the pain gets too bad, if the procedure is denied.
Their pets, however, will be treated quickly and efficiently with the latest and greatest at a low cost - but not free.