[Tatze]

Several justices express concern about harming insurers if mandate falls but the rest of the law stays in place
Swing vote Kennedy worries about imposing a “risk” on insurance companies “that Congress never intended.”

I hope Kennedy is truly concerned about that, as we all should be. Invalidating the mandate while keeping the rest of the law is the worst case scenario, worse than leaving the whole law intact.

If insurers must still accept all preexisting conditions, and people are under no mandate to have insurance, then nothing stops people from dropping their insurance now (or not getting in the first place) and buying in only when they are hit with an expensive medical emergency.

Insurers cannot survive in that kind of model, and the road to single payer will become an expressway.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “Invalidating the mandate while keeping the rest of the law is the worst case scenario, worse than leaving the whole law intact.” <<

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Not so!

The mandate is 90% of what is wrong with Obamacare. As for the rest of it, we do not need “healthcare” nor ‘health’ insurance, and that is the big lesson that all the people need to grasp. Say good-bye to doctors and their poison drugs, and your health will improve, and so will the country.