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... as far as welfare programs go, mandatory health insurance isn't 1/100 of what Social Security or Medicare are. It exists for the same reason and under the same logic car insurance does, because uninsured persons pose a prohibitively expensive risk to the public good.
As a solution to the 20% of Americans with no coverage and skyrocketing premiums, it is centrism at its most bland and uncontroversial. The only reason it became controversial was because Republicans needed a new program to be their whipping boy because it became increasingly obvious their welfare dependent constituents were reacting badly to their posturing on Social Security and Medicare.
Opinion noted, rejected as being contrary to known reality
none of those programs should have survived honest supreme court review. sadly, the supreme court circa 1934-1950 was hardly honest and the courts after that were more interested in sustaining precedent than doing the right thing