to take a closer look at that question. greta: is there any way this statute gets funded if the mandate is unconstitutional? if they can t require people to pay for it. i realize you didn t win the severeability argument. any way this gets funded within the statute if that is gone? no. that s why the federal government in their briefs conceded if the individual mandate is unconstitutional all the insurance elements need to go with it because it is the funding mechanism. there was a way they could have achieved the same goals constitutionalityly. to have passed a constitutionally. to have passed a tax bill that funds the tax provisions. they didn t want to vote on the tax. they wanted to just use this circumventing route to get around the tax requirements. so they required all of us to buy this health insurance that they were gonna mandate the
to take a closer look at that question. greta: is there any way this statute gets funded if the mandate is unconstitutional? if they can t require people to pay for it. i realize you didn t win the severeability argument. any way this gets funded within the statute if that is gone? no. that s why the federal government in their briefs conceded if the individual mandate is unconstitutional all the insurance elements need to go with it because it is the funding mechanism. there was a way they could have achieved the same goals constitutionalityly. to have passed a constitutionally. to have passed a tax bill that funds the tax provisions. they didn t want to vote on the tax. they wanted to just use this circumventing route to get around the tax requirements. so they required all of us to buy this health insurance that they were gonna mandate the