6-3 the mandate is dead

[Gman]

What I find most distressing is that the wrong question was asked and answered.

The question that was asked and answered was "Can the government require a company with 100 or more employees to force their employees into being vaccinated?"

The questions the Supreme Court should have been required to answer is "(1) Can the government or any other organization mandate a citizen to receive any form of medical care against their will? (2) Can the government or any other organization penalize citizens for not receiving any form of medical care when they choose not to receive such care?"

They've already decided that we have to buy a product (health insurance) whether we need it or not.

[Gman]

To add to this, I'm surprised this hasn't been pushed further. The stretch by SCOTUS to find Obamacare Constitutional as a "tax" could easily be the progressives'/socialists' path forward.

You don't want to get vaccinated? You've been deemed to be a negative impact to society and you must buy an additional insurance policy to cover the expense or pay a "tax" to behave in this way. You want to have guns and ammo? That has been deemed to be a negative impact to society and you must buy an additional insurance policy to cover the expense or pay a "tax" to behave this way.

Of course this same government would be the arbiter of the statistics used to define such risks (with an incentive to pry more dollars from the people to feed its endless appetite).

You either comply, pay the tax, or break the law. It's basically a spin on Islam where infidels have the option to convert, pay jizya, or die.