Just when you thought FHer-care couldn't fail any worse

Seeing a lot of commentary on HHS's announcement about qualifying for "hardship" already today.  So far, I think Ed Morrissey's roundup and observations at Hot Air are the most cogent.

Among his points:

• It exacerbates the already-looming problem of younger, healthier people opting out of the insurance industry's risk pool.
• One form in which we will see that development is those younger, healthier people who have "enrolled" not actually sending in that first premium for their newfangled FHer-care plans.
• Because Justice Roberts's tortured reasoning established that the penalty for not buying insurance is a tax, the regime is in the interesting position of calling one of its own taxes a "hardship."

The pointy-headed bureaucrats of this regime painted themselves into a corner by lacking the cajones to employ the ruthlessness characteristic of the regimes they admire, preferring instead to try to sell their vapid initiatives with dazzle-dazzle and blather about "fairness."

At least I am personally off the hook for either paying a fine or buying a gummint-grade plan.  Except that I'd better not come down with a major health issue after February 28, when my current plan, with which I am perfectly satisfied, gets cancelled.  Damn it.

How can the FHer-care situation get any more pathetic?