In a few critical ways. Fundamentally, insurance covers unexpected, non-routine, not-insignificant losses. Health insurance regularly covers small, expected, and routine things. It is fundamentally unlike most of the insurance we know of.

I could have sworn I posted a reply to this, but it seems to have disappeared.    The gist of it was that I too was somewhat surprised.  But pleased.

If the court is ruling on Constitutionality, most decisions should be unanimous.  If they are ruling on right or wrong, then you can expect partisan divides, but SCOTUS is not supposed to be ruling on right or wrong.  They are supposed to be ruling on Constitutionality.

Back door way to get Pelosi in there...

Here's a Constitutional question. Limbaugh was saying he thought Sanders would choose AOC as his running mate.  Let's say Sanders was elected and croaks of a heart attack, can AOC be sworn in as the President? She does not meet the age qualification.

They do have a few - my favorite being David Brooks. But overall, I would say they have a distinct left-leaning bias. Same with PBS - in fact with PBS it's worse than just "leaning". Their *news* correspondents like Lisa DesJardins and Yamiche Alcindor constantly interject opinions and analysis into their reporting, and the analysis is always from a liberal or progressive point of view. Alcindor drives me crazy by constantly "fact-checking" Trump inside her *news* segments.

I will grant you that both NPR and PBS are less overtly progressive than, say, CNN... but that doesn't make them neutral reporters of fact, far from it. Many of the in-depth segments on PBS Newshour focus e.g. on people detained by ICE at the southern border, a transparent attempt to make the administration's immigration policies seem cruel and inhumane. To their credit they sometimes interview officials from the administration and have conservative pundits on their roundtables (in addition to Brooks who is more centrist). But the overall impression is a progressive one.

Once again you fail to account for media outlets like Fox News, Tribune media and others.  Hell, Tribune media is rabidly conservative and controls nearly half of all local TV stations.  Fox News is a juggernaut with huge viewership. 

The real problem isn't that there are outlets on the left or right.  The real problem is folks tend to listen and/or watch content that reinforces their already established beliefs.  That just increases the polarization we've seen in the America electorate.  Gone are the days when we could count on reporting as honest and unbiased journalism.

Actually, unbiased journalism isn't new in America.  It goes back a very, very long way.  What's new is the widespread dissemination.