but romney care on steroids, right? right. and it s also a policy that came out of the heritage institute a long time. so it s actually a right-leaning policy that has been contorted for liberal purposes. so they ve been boxed in in terms of this usage of the word tax . but there s a conversation we should be having over the supreme court decision, and that s the implications of the medicaid ruling. what does it mean to curb federal power? what are the long-term implications of that? we don t really know, but that s the conversation we should be having. and ezra, this was the piece that i thought had to constitutional problem at all. because we ve done so many changes, expansions of medicaid over time. but this time, they said, no, no. this is a change in the nature of the program, which i don t think it is. but this is a possibly much bigger impact in terms of what the coverage might end up being, than even the mandate was going to be. and they did, to be fair, they only chan
and it s also a policy that came out of the heritage institute a long time. so it s actually a right-leaning policy that has been contorted for liberal purposes. so they ve been boxed in in terms of this usage of the word tax . but there s a conversation we should be having over the supreme court decision, and that s the implications of the medicaid ruling. what does it mean to curb federal power? what are the long-term implications of that? we don t really know, but that s the conversation we should be having. and ezra, this was the piece that i thought had to constitutional problem at all. because we ve done so many changes, expansions of medicaid over time. but this time, they said, no, no. this is a change in the nature of the program, which i don t think it is. but this is a possibly much bigger impact in terms of what the coverage might end up being, than even the mandate was going to be. and they did, to be fair, they only changed the way of an enforcement penalty. what t