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99% of the people complaining about the ACA mandate are employed and already have insurance... The ACA will improve their coverage by preventing insurance companies from dropping you when you get sick AND removing arbitrary benefit limits. Why exactly would anyone who already has insurance even care that there is a mandate?
My opinion is that the mandate is legal under the commerce clause because the government can prove that the uninsured place financial burden on the insured via cost shifting.
There are parts of the law that I am concerned with... specifically, it forces states to accept a large percentage of more people into Medicaid. I think this will ultimately lead to the law being ruled unconstitutional. The federal government doesn't have the right to force states to spend their budget as the federal government sees fit.
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