True or False?

[cthulu2016]

The public option would, by providing an outlet for citizens who preferred to not contract with a private insurer, have been sufficient to ensure the constitionality of the ACA.

I'd guess true.

[Cleita]

1. I believe so too. They made a big mistake not including it.

If they had made the choice to be what a person could afford on a sliding scale for a Medicare buy in, it would have gone down more easily. For those who are unemployed or unable to contribute anything, then one of the medicaid or poverty programs could have picked up the tab. The rich asses who want fancy private insurance could still have it, if they can afford it. Easy, peasy.

[cthulu2016]

3. In my state...

you must have auto insurance, or pay $250/year into an uninsured motorist fund that supposedly gives money to people hit by uninsured drivers.

I doubt the uninsured motorist fee actually helps anyone. Most uninsured people check the "insured" box rather than paying the $250.

But that fee exists, I would guess, because when the law was first written somebody said, "It doesn't seem right to require people to contract with an insurance company, or to tell them they cannot drive just because no private insurer wants their business."

Few people use it, but it's an outlet in the law.

[dogknob]

2. No mistakes were made...

...it was sabotage the minute the individual mandate got into the bill.