Yup, that’s why we need the SCOTUS to rule it unconstitutional.
Via Daily Caller:
If the Supreme Court rules the individual mandate unconstitutional, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said the rest of the health care law wouldn’t work from a “financial standpoint.”
“Well, just to borrow a Supreme Court metaphor, you have to eat your vegetables,” Pelosi said at her weekly press briefing Thursday. You have to have the mandate in order for this to work from a financial standpoint but it doesn’t mean that — in other words, we want to keep those in place. The biggest difference in the lives of the American people — well, let me say one of, because — in terms of this legislation is that you cannot be deprived of coverage if you have a pre-existing medical condition. This is huge.”
In addition to preventing insurance companies from denying those with pre-existing conditions, the Patients Bill of Rights portion of the law also allows individuals under 26 years of age to stay on their parents’ health plan.