[semantic]

It's dead, Jim. Without the mandate, there isn't a $trillion dollar floor available to subsidize insurance companies covering pre-existing conditions.

Therefore, they will lobby Congress to quickly & formally kill off O-care before it begins to hit their bottom lines.

Think of that scene in the Battle of the Bulge where the Nazi tanks run out of gas. That's what ending the mandate does.

[gr8eman]

Applause! Analogy of the day!