“[W]e established incentives for those who were uninsured to buy insurance. Using tax penalties, as we did … encourages ‘free riders’ to take responsibility for themselves rather than pass their medical costs on to others.”
Best right-wing responses to Roberts decision so far? Here’s our list. What did we miss?
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) on Republicans: “The only health care mandate they can embrace are transvaginal probes for women.”
GOP governors split on whether to implement the Health Care Reform law.
Jack Shafer: Murdoch “makes Richard III look like a nice guy.”
I’ll just say that if he’s editing your article, Jack sometimes made Rupert Murdoch seem like a nice guy. But that doesn’t mean I don’t still love him!
In campaign conference call, one-time Rick Perry backer turned Romney surrogate slips and refers to “Obamneycare.”
Just a reminder that all of our Supreme Court/health care reform coverage is right here. Dig in deep or peruse at your leisure.
And if you missed it yesterday afternoon, you can still read back through Brian Beutler’s live chat with readers.
Another TPM Reader, LD, isn’t buying the idea that Roberts’ decision was some sort of double secret jujitsu chop on the welfare state …
I practice constitutional law and a commerce clause geek, and I have to agree with your reader who says the liberal commentators are hyperventilating over the prospect that Congressional power over economic regulation will seriously be hobbled by Robert’s opinion.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) on why the mandate is a tax at the federal level from President Obama but not at the state level from Gov. Romney …
Romney “supported it on the state level. Which means if you didn’t like it in Massachusetts, you could move to another state,” Rubio said on Bloomberg Television. “What are people supposed to do? Leave the United States now because of Barack Obama’s brilliant idea to stick the IRS on millions of people? More importantly, the state of Massachusetts doesn’t have the IRS. The IRS will follow you. Do people understand what this means?”