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it’s even worse than this. Roberts cut a deal *with the liberals* to trade the exchanges for the mandatory Medicaid expansion, and they agreed to it because judges don’t know shit about policy or have any policy staff

I will say, one debate that *did* get resolved was: do you need the mandate for the system to work and the answer turned out to be no.

I guess to be fair to the justices even the big brain policy wonk types didn’t predict that for the most part. I think @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social did?

I think it was quite easy to predict! The idea that the main factor in people's decision on whether to purchase insurance is an accurate assessment of their expected future health care costs is just really dumb economics brain thinking.