Today’s SCOTUS argument

The consensus seems to be that the Government’s argument for the law took some hits today. I’m not a good-enough tea leaf reader to say. But I heard Justice Scalia say something that seemed awfully disingenuous to me:

JUSTICE SCALIA: Why do you — why do you define the market that broadly? Health care. It may well be that everybody needs health care sooner or later, but not everybody needs a heart transplant, not everybody needs a liver transplant. Why —

GENERAL VERRILLI: That’s correct, Justice Scalia, but you never know whether you’re going to be that person.

Mr. Verrilli was more polite than I. I’d have said “Mr. Justice, not everybody needs a war, either, but we all have to pay for it.”