[Lou L]

How does this work in practice? For Obamacare to work, an army of young people need to willingly pay $3,000 per year in premiums, while knowing they will not even come close to reaching their $3,000 deductible. An average of about one baby is born to women sometime in their 20s. But that's about the only major expense a 20-something will incur. For their part, hoards of healthy 40-somethings need to pay $4,000 in premiums for a $4,000 deductible they will never reach; and healthy 50-somethings need to pay $5,000 in premiums for a $6,000 deductible most of whom will never surpass.

All these payments without getting anything to show for them sounds a little like a tax. It's a healthcare "infrastructure" tax, that's what it is!

[Kaslin]

Exactly

[thinden]

You are exactly right it IS a tax, and that is how the ACA was upheld by the SCOTUS: a tax.