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A great reason to decouple healthcare from employers. Not surprising though.

• kyledrake 12y ago
  I ended up doing this, after being tired of having to switch providers every six months from working on startups. Usually the company will let you receive the healthcare amount as part of your salary, which allows you to purchase your own plan. As a single person with no dependants, I can usually find a cheaper plan individually and end up getting a little more pay. I don't know how this is normally, but it's worked for me so far. I'm clumping this into "yet another reason there should be universal single payer healthcare".
• eghad 12y ago
  The decision only applies to corporations where it's owners are indistinguishable from the business itself. Alito (who wrote for the majority) especially emphasizes it has no effect on insurance mandate. That info is just from the SCOTUSblog live coverage: http://live.scotusblog.com/Event/Live_blog_of_opinions__June_30_2014 http://live.scotusblog.com/Event/Live_blog_of_opinions__June... They'll deliver the details in "In Plain English" soon if you don't want to scroll through.
  • dragonwriter 12y ago
    > The decision only applies to corporations where it's owners are indistinguishable from the business itself. If the owners are indistinguishable from the corporation itself, its not a really a bona fide corporation -- the entire premise of the corporate liability shield, the easier deductibility of corporate expenditures, and the existence of corporations as distinct legal persons is that the whole idea of a corporation is that it is a creature of law -- of government -- distinct from its stockholders governed by a government-approved charter.