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Health care: the real winners
At that moment, the pro-Obama side of the protests started cheering and waving signs. The Republicans around me registered their disgust succinctly. "Are you kidding?" "It's a tax?" "FUCK!"
I heard a peal of delight and turned around -- that's the picture at the top of this post. Hilary Matfess, a young policy analyst, was jumping up and down, yelling out details.
"The mandate is constitutional! It was upheld! Roberts went for the swing vote! Yes! Oh my God! The individual mandate survives as a tax!"
Did you work on passing the bill? I asked.
"No!" said Matfess. "I just have lupus!"
I heard a peal of delight and turned around -- that's the picture at the top of this post. Hilary Matfess, a young policy analyst, was jumping up and down, yelling out details.
"The mandate is constitutional! It was upheld! Roberts went for the swing vote! Yes! Oh my God! The individual mandate survives as a tax!"
Did you work on passing the bill? I asked.
"No!" said Matfess. "I just have lupus!"
As a father of daughter who has a pre-existing condition and is about Matfess's age, she really captures my joy at today's ruling!
