I really doubt the genie can be put back into the bottle. Millions now receive "free" stuff and they won't easily give it up and we'll be told how unfair it is if it is taken away... That's why it was so important to take a stand before it went into affect - remember that government shut down?
Trump has already said his version is going to require coverage of preexisting conditions and therefore "buying" insurance will have to be mandatory as a result. Otherwise no one would buy "insurance" until after they need it, because they have to take you after the fact.
And never mind that constitution explicitly states what is in the federal government's domain and everything else is left to the states. Federally controlled one size fits all health care isn't there but big Note that that isn't insurance it all.
government Republicans don't care.
Of course it's not insurance.
It's a mafiosa-style graft game....forcing people to purchase insurance they don't need...or wouldn't need, if not for the thugs pushing it on them. It's a leftist wealth-redistribution scam/scheme.....forcing healthy Americans to fund, pay for and subsidize the non-healthy that can't afford "good insurance". Cause....Medicaid just isn't good enough for "Holder's people" and all of the new illegal immigrants, dontcha know. It's good enough for poor whiteys and for US vets, of course.
Also note that.... for it to be constitutional re: being a "tax" vs. being a penalty/fee.... it would have to be able to apply to ALL Americans equally (equal justice under the law).....which it clearly does not. Certain "special" people can get a subsidy ...exempting them from having to pay for their own insurance OR pay the tax/fee/penalty/whatever. It's about
the most convoluted and unfair scheme the leftists in America have come up with yet. But I'm sure they're working on even more, as we speak.
The main problem I have with the left's version and idea of "equal rights"....is that in order for them to give special consideration to one group (their locked-in voting blocks of minorities and gays).... they must take away consideration and rights from another group (non-left-voting Americans). With the left....the only rights that they consider
equal are the ones that benefit them and their political party.