"Despite so much deserved scrutiny over the health insurance website, the weakest cog, perhaps, is the law's individual mandate. The purpose of the mandate is notoriously simple: to cajole or compel tens of millions of healthy young people to greatly overpay for health insurance so that older, sicker, and (for the most part) wealthier people can greatly underpay. To pass the law, Congress stripped this cog of its teeth, and the Supreme Court later removed its linchpin.... With the moral implications stripped away by the Court, failing to buy insurance is no more immoral than declining to eat a plate of liver."

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