The whole law gets tossed out. No severance clause means that if any part of the law is struck down, the *entire* law is struck down.
Knowledgeable people I have talked to are very surprised; these severance clauses are usually standard. But in the mad rush to ram the bill down our throats, someone forgot to put the clause in. And, since nobody read the thing before voting on it, it went through unnoticed. LOL!
I know nothing about the law so please help me to understand this.
Certain groups of people are exempted from the health care bill so does that mean that the law does not apply equally to all? Would that deem the law unconstitutional? Then the whole law is kaput?