If the mandate to buy insurance is removed and the mandate for insurance companies to take people with preexisting conditions remains... then everyone would just drop their insurance and wait until they get sick or hurt to buy it, bankrupting the entire insurance sector overnight.
There is no middle ground on this, either the mandate to buy insurance stands or the mandate to sell to people with preexisting conditions must also go.
It's not up to the court to decide if it's a good law, just if it's unconstitutional or not. Congress can pass a law requiring insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions if they want. The fact that it would bankrupt the insurance industry doesn't make it unconstitional. That would probably get Obama where he wants to go faster, allowing him to declare health insurance has failed and it's time to go single payer.
We were told 2 years ago that NOTHING in this bill could be changed or altered.
All or Nothing is what I get from that.
Which of the 2 new women on the SC is the one which should recuse herself because she argued & formed the bill in the first place? Sotomayer or Kagan???