The semantics game the Supremes are playing is the same sort of game the Wall Street traders play with the term "credit default swaps", which are insurance for complex derivatives, but since the word "insurance" is not used, credit default swaps are unregulated by the SEC... credit default swaps gone bad is what caused the economic meltdown in 2008...

I like what Reich says about Medicare for all...

 

Healthcare Jujitsu
by Robert Reich on his blog
March 26, 2012

Not surprisingly, today’s debut Supreme Court argument over the so-called “individual mandate” requiring everyone to buy health insurance revolved around epistemological niceties such as the meaning of a “tax,” and the question of whether the issue is ripe for review.

Behind this judicial foreplay is the brute political fact that if the Court decides the individual mandate is an unconstitutional extension of federal authority, the entire law starts unraveling.

But with a bit of political jujitsu, the President could turn any such defeat into a victory for a single-payer healthcare system – Medicare for all.

Here’s how...