Individual Mandate/Gallup Poll in Wake of Supreme Court Hearings

I have no idea why it passed. It has sounded very unpopular all along. I feel like the wrong people were allowed to vote. It obviously is not the will of the people.

This is true and correct! What I'm waiting for is the logistics! When we have unemployment still at about 10%. In Minnesota alone there are now 15% of children in poverty. Entire families are housed in poverty/homeless facilities. I'm waiting for the day they start fining these people. Unconstitutional? How about the disabled in poverty? This should end up blowing up in their faces! Our neighbors, our friends, and the children will be placed even deeper in poverty. Can we say "third world country"? Can we say "socialist"? This insults the United States citizen on so many levels it turns my stomach!

Not really surprising as about that many supported the Public Option which means a majority was against the idea of forcing people to get something they didn't want to get. The big thing was that Health Insurance Companies wanted the mandate which is obvious as to why they would want such a thing. Good for business when everyone has to have coverage or get fined hundreds or thousands of dollars.

I agree that this part of the bill is wrong. but I suspect it passed because the majority felt that the good parts outweighed the bad. Not all of it was bad...

The mandate is overreaching. As an expat, I don't need American health insurance. If I travel to America, I buy vacation coverage from my health fund in my country.Obama wants expats to either buy coverage or pay a fine/tax or whatever you want to call it. But the kicker is even if I pay he yearly fine for not being covered, I can't use the system if I'm there on vacation. I find that unfair. First off I don't need to be in a health system in a country that I don't live in. It makes no sense whatsoever.

The more I've been thinking about this, the more I want the Supreme Court to uphold the law. Now, I do believe it's unconstitutional. But when people elect their representatives and send them to Congress, and when people vote in various propositions, etc, I don't think we should look to the courts to bail us out if we don't like it. If people are worried about it, get rid of the Democratically controlled Senate, vote out Obama, and push for a repeal. Judicial activism is something the progressives love when they realize too few Americans share their brand of idiocy. This is reminding me of California. It's an awesome setup they have there -- if you're a progressive liberal! Ballot initiatives one after the other, we'll let the "people" vote for what they want. Oh, but wait a minute -- if it's not something the uberprogressives want, when it's something they realize they f'd up on, then is goes to the all-progressive, all-the-time court to be overturned or passed. They've set it up that way, so people feel like they matter, but they really don't. I just don't want the same thing on a national level. I don't want the American people to keep feeling as if their votes matter, only to have politicians play a game of chess in maneuvering courts in their party's favor so that any law at any time can become part of America or shot down based on cronies in robes. The only reason it was ever passed to begin with is that Obama was still relatively fresh and no one knew the final result would be a bill that none of the idiots who voted for it even read! It wasn't until the very end that Princess Pelosi spilled the beans on her and her party's way of thinking: "We have to pass it to know what's in it." At that time, people were still believing that Obama was going to close GITMO and be a positive force for race relations and would actually cut the debt and spending. People thought they TPers were all just racists who didn't know wtf they were talking about. So the Dems were never being pressured not to vote or to at least change things in it. People were too trusting that this time around things would be different. FAIL.

I guess I said most of this when I responded in the first square. It was passed because congressmen let themselves be pressured into voting for it with empty promises that weren't kept. It was passed because congressmen did not insist on having a bill complete with lots of time to read and analyze it before they voted. It was passed because Harry Reid used the process of reconciliation in an unprecedented manner to avoid needing the larger number of votes that they normally need to pass it. It was passed because of dirty politics. If we keep reelecting these people who did this to Congress, we will get more of the same. The American people need to make their voices heard loudly in the upcoming elections. Vote in the primaries. Vote in your local elections where future national candidates come from. Bug your elected officials and keep bugging them. Don't take this sitting down. If you do, it will soon be too late to stand up to this corruption and tyranny.