Broccoli and Bad Faith

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/30/opinion/krugman-broccoli-and-bad-faith.html

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From: barry levine 
Date: Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 9:17 AM
Subject: re: Broccoli and Bad Faith
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

     Whether "to tax everyone — healthy and sick alike — and use the money raised to provide health coverage" is constitutionally different from "requir[ing] that everyone buy insurance, while aiding those for whom this is a financial hardship" is a matter that the SCOTUS may have to decide in the coming months. Out in the larger world, of course the two are different. One uses the power of the Federal government to guarantee the profits  of private insurance companies, and the other does not. From the vantage of an Insurer, or an Insurance lobbyist, or a lawmaker in the pay of the Insurers, the two are as different as night from day.

Barry Haskell Levine