Thursday, July 12, 2012

Broccoli obsession

Here's  what I still do when I feel like it,  like my dad did with his free time, which he had plenty of as an overpaid professional. All respect. 

This debate is about the affordable care act and the liars on the supreme court. 

THE CHIEF JUSTICE draws an analogy to the car market. He claims, falsely, that an individual "is not 'active in the car market,'" simply because he or she may someday buy a car. 

But he is lying.  Individuals ARE active in the health market because there is a certainty that they will someday have medical care.  Everyone is GUARANTEED costly emergency care whether they pay for it or not.  So in fact everyone participates in health care except Christian Scientists, because they will all have care available to them whether they buy insurance or not.  You may pretend there is an inconstancy there, but there isn't. I can see it too, but it won't work as a refutation. It's just a small problem in the presentation.  Be nice. Don't bullshit just to win. Nothing is at stake.  

And no one should get a free ride at the expense of another consumer forced to pay an inflated price.  The Commerce Clause addresses this unfair burden on medically insured citizens.  

The inevitable need for medical care and the guarantee that costly emergency care will be provided when required are conditions nonexistent in any and all other markets.
----- Ruth Bader Ginsburg. 

Medical care is unique in this regard, and THE CHIEF JUSTICE is fully cognizant of this absolute fact.  

That is so of the market for cars, and of the market for broccoli as well. And tofu, Governor Jindal.  Although an individual might buy a car or a crown of broccoli one day,  he will be obliged to pay for it.  
He will get no free ride or food, at the expense of another consumer forced to pay an inflated price.

This is incontrovertible.  As in, there's no good argument.  No argument at all. And it's not rocket science. Medical care is the ONLY product available for free. That inequality, that unfairness, has now been redressed by Obamacare, warts and all.   Bite me!

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