Posted on 03/28/2012 5:46:43 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
“invalidating a major piece of domestic legislation for the first time since the Depression”
My kneejerk reaction is that this is probably untrue, but let’s say it is. Now we have a preview of the Obama campaign’s talking points:
A switch in time to doom nine! A split SCOTUS, driven purely by ideology, Turns Back the Clock to the Bad Old Days FDR saved us from. We’ve already had free speech rights extended to corporations and individual non-militia members granted gun rights in D.C. What will they overturn next, if Republicans regain the White House and stack the court with likeminded extremists? A nationwide ban on gay marriage, naturally. Abortions and birth control criminalized, of course. No more Social Security? Medicaid? Civil Rights legislation?
Don’t wait to find out. Re-elect Obama and tip SCOTUS back to our side.
“The big question is if all or part of the law is thrown out, what is next? Rino’s caving and going with an actual tax and single payor? Win the battle and lose the war?”
Assuming it is thrown out altogether, in a perfect world a pub-controlled Congress uses the interstate commerce clause as it was intended and smash barriers to buying insurance across state lines; states stop mandating coverage for gender confusion therapy and port wine stain removal, and people start buying major medical again; tort reform cuts cost dramatically on the supply side; free emergency care is restricted to actual emergencies; employers stop providing coverage as a matter of course and instead individuals shop for it on their own; and we return to a free market in healthcare. Back in the world we inhabit, Republicans do nothing or a watered-down socialization. Dems swoop in eventually and egt single-payer anyway.
If the mandate is thrown out leaving the rest of Obamacare safe, the insurance market will collapse and will probably be replaced with a single-payer system whoever’s in charge.
“I’m of the opinion that the Democrats included everything they could in the law, knowing that part of it would probably be dropped but the majority would stay”
Setting aside whether they’d risk the bad PR of a SCOTUS slapdown, I could believe that. Except the most important part of the remainder of Obamacare, namely coverage for preexisting conditions, is totally reliant on the mandate. Without the mandate, the insurance industry as we know it collapses. Which could be the plan, but I doubt it. That’d be out-Alinskying Alinsky.
As for the rest, what do you have? Well, thousands of pages I’ll never read nor understand if I did. Stuff that will cost us money we don’t have, just like everything else Leviathan does.
LA Times seems pessimistic about their bill.
The libs are warning the Justices that they wont seem legitimate to them if they overturn this bill. Should they worry? LOL
One can only hope and pray. Otherwise we’re just at the mercy of the whimsical rogue gods in black robes!!! (and before that, Nancy Pelosi’s house of ill repute)
This would be a great win,,if WE had a political party.
May God grant us this, by His mercy and grace upon those of us who love Him. In Jesus Holy Name, Amen.
All that I have read says that the SC will announce its decision in June. Since the leftist on the court have obviously already made up their minds, I cannot understand why it will take that long
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