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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (115742)6/24/2012 1:20:19 PM
From: mel221  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 149317
 
Because people who don't pay into SS don't collect SS. SS is not universal. Healthcare cannot operate like SS as healthcare needs to be universal.

Otherwise, if only the people who work pay health insurance premiums for everyone, then you have placed one more cost upon the price of labor of this country.

That's why the only funding mechanism is the individual mandate... pay for premiums independent of employment.



To: ChinuSFO who wrote (115742)6/24/2012 5:59:50 PM
From: Bread Upon The Water  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 149317
 
The legal reasoning I believe is that SS is seen as within the governments taxing power--a tax on your wages, whereas forcing someone to buy something, in this case health insurance has not yet been declared within the Federal Government's power. But hold on we'll know by this time tomorrow as the decision is going to be released on Monday.


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