Alternatively, he said, Congress could require people to purchase insurance immediately before actually obtaining medical care.

WSJ: Conservative Justices Challenge Government Over Health Law

Is a government authorized to ration medical care and force individuals to purchase health insurance against their will consistent with even a minimal notion of privacy, private property and economic freedom?

FORBES: The Paradox of Rights 'Granted' Us by Government

Normally, such a proposal would be considered politically laughable because Medicare provides seniors with medical insurance they would otherwise be unable to purchase.

FORBES: Congressman Ryan, Should Predatory Pricing Cartels Really Run Health Care?

Most health economists agree that the tax advantage leads workers to purchase inefficiently generous insurance plans, and therefore to over-consume medical care.

ECONOMIST: Health-care promises

Massachusetts ex-governor and former healthcare reformer himself, Mitt Romney, is advocating abolishing Obamacare altogether while endorsing reforms such as allowing individuals to purchase healthcare insurance across state lines, increasing the tax-free savings limits for medical expenses, and allowing small businesses to pool risk for insurance discounts.

FORBES: 'ObamaCare' And The Upcoming Supreme Court Decision

The individual mandate, by forcing everyone to buy medical insurance or to pay a fine, was intended to force those who preferred not to purchase insurance to do so in order to subsidize the other customers and their insurance companies.

FORBES: With or without mandate, Affordable Care Act fails

Ezekiel Emanuel, a health policy expert whose brother is former White House chief of staff (now Chicago mayor) Rahm Emanuel, has an op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal offering advice for dealing with one of ObamaCare's biggest impending problems: the inevitability that medical insurance premiums for the young and healthy will rise so high that it's economically irrational to purchase policies.

WSJ: Crunch Time