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"Cancelled insurance" has mostly meant that you would lose your current plan and be automatically enrolled in a new plan by the same insurer, not that you would be uninsured. Some people did in fact lose their insurance or face higher premiums, but that number is now considerably smaller than the amount of people who have gained insurance.

I don't want to get in to ad hominem, but Matt Drudge is known to say untruthful things. In fact, that "unexpected requirement" is challenged by numerous people [0]. And of course, everybody already knew that you would pay a fine if you didn't buy insurance. Matt Drudge was not the one who discovered that.

[0] http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/drudge-individual-mand...

The Administration actually does have legal authority to execute various parts of the law as they see fit. It does undermine credibility and set a bad future precedent, however.

Mandating people to buy health insurance and mandating people to buy weapons are two entirely different things.

Good thing they extended the deadline a bit for those experiencing technical issues, then.

Indeed. It reminds me of how Steve Jobs received credit for Jony Ive's designs[0]. Americans have been raised and convinced to believe that CEOs and business executives are the source of all creativity, and that their wealth is a logical result of that.

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-would-annoy-jony-i...

I wouldn't call using the power of free speech to oppose the hateful views of a CEO to be totalitarian righteousness. Would you feel invigorated to work for a CEO who supports slavery?

This particular website appears to have buckled under the traffic. In the mean time, here's a mostly equivalent article:

http://venturebeat.com/2014/03/28/mozillas-bad-week-employee...

A pressing problem is the fact that a large slice of Americans believe that the owners are the creators.

The ability to have easy credit was the foremost event which brought about the consumer era. Reverting back to a defacto gold standard would be a retrogression on a scale rarely witnessed in the previous few centuries.