218,000 people (and probably going to exceed 400,000 people) are now on scotusblog.com to know the Supreme Court Decision on the Affordable Health Care Act, otherwise known as Obama Cares and all this to know the decision 15 to 60 seconds before they would find out in a more normal form of media.
I know why supporters of the ACA are watching because they are passionately in favor of everyone having access to health care and see it as a driver to controlling the cost of health care for everyone. I am less sure about opponents because their passion is seemingly in favor of individual rights (not to buy health care until they need it or are able to foster the cost upon others without paying for it) but they confuse this passion by being in favor of components of the ACA like "allowing coverage with pre-existing conditions", keeping kids on parents policies until they find a job, being in favor of health insurance exchanges, being in favor of not allowing insurance companies to end your coverage when you get sick, being in favor of no-life-time coverage limits, being in favor of limiting profits on Health Insurance Companies (like other regulated utilities) and closing the doughnut hole for seniors (this qualifies as fostering the cost upon others without paying for it, but don't tell that to any senior citizen who says "I don't want government messing with my Medicare!")
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