This is really good:
In response to the plaintiffs’ claim that they would prefer to pay for their own medical care, Kessler says that they “have no way of predicting what their future medical costs will be” and concludes it likely their future medical care will likely impose costs on others. To make her point—and, perhaps, to curry favor with policy wonks like me—she even cites statistics from the Department of Health and Human Services showing that the average hospital stay in the U.S. “lasted 4.6 days and included total charges of $29,046.”