Why must we have an exchange, a new bureaucracy, to buy a product?

What business is it of government what insurance we buy?  Why would we complicate such things?  Couldn't the insurance be deductible in the same way anyhow?

Of course it could.

Which gets back to my point about telling the feds to cliff jump.

I am absolutely sure the Senator is doing what he feels is best for the state, but in the process of all the feel good rhetoric about what it will do FOR US, we are missing what it continues to do TO US.

The Supreme court is not the last authority on this.  The states are.

Having said that .. IF the exchange is created, and has little or no cost, has little or no requirement to participate, and has little or no real effect on those who do not wish to participate, then it is merely an Ebay of insurance and I welcome a new opportunity.

BUT