'Down the Insurance Rabbit Hole'
From Angela Louise Campbell at the
New York Times:
ON the second day of oral arguments over the Affordable Care Act,
Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr., trying to explain what sets
health care apart, told the Supreme Court,
“This is a market in which you may be healthy one day and you may be a
very unhealthy participant in that market the next day.” Justice Antonin
Scalia subsequently expressed skepticism about forcing the young to buy
insurance: “When they think they have a substantial risk of incurring
high medical bills, they’ll buy insurance, like the rest of us.”
May the justices please meet my sister-in-law. On Feb. 8, she was a
healthy 32-year-old, who was seven and a half months pregnant with her
first baby. On Feb. 9, she was a quadriplegic, paralyzed from the chest
down by a car accident that damaged her spine. Miraculously, the baby,
born by emergency C-section, is healthy.
Read it all. I wish there was a way to mandate that the conservative justices on the Supreme Court read the story, especially
Antonin (Broccoli) Scalia, the clown on the bench.
H/T to Charles Pierce at
The Politics Blog.