[Meet the New Boss]

Striking down the individual mandate still leaves a terrible, tyrannical law.

Because Obamacare authorizes the bureaucrats to dictate the terms and benefits of all health insurance policies that may be offered to the public, your choice is essentially to go without health insurance entirely (which the 11th Circuit now says you can do) or buy a policy that is a government-designed policy.

The government-designed policy allows the government to decide which treatments may be paid for and which may not. Old white person who lived your life responsibly and conservatively? No treatments for you, too expensive. Young homosexual who needs expensive AIDS drugs because they had thousands of anonymous sexual encounters in bathhouses? Yes, this gets paid because that is a government-approved victim group with higher status.

Since Congress did not include a severability clause and it is impossible to say how Congress would have structured the law if it could not include the individual mandate, the entire law should have been struck down.

[awin]

Exactly! Well articulated!

[awin]

Exactly! Well articulated!

[americanophile]

I agree, but SCOTUS may still kill the whole thing. In any event, the law without the mandate will prove wildly unpopular for the exact reasons you point out. It won’t survive.

[Flavious_Maximus]

Without the individual mandate then the whole thing goes down in flames. You will still be left with millions who go without insurance and therefor very high premiums for those who do purchase it. The entire Obamacare is unworkable. They primarily pushed it so that the illegals would get “free” healthcare. That's what this was all about.

[Chiltepe]

The government-designed policy allows the government to decide which treatments may be paid for and which may not. Old white person who lived your life responsibly and conservatively? No treatments for you, too expensive. Young homosexual who needs expensive AIDS drugs because they had thousands of anonymous sexual encounters in bathhouses? Yes, this gets paid because that is a government-approved victim group with higher status.

Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner! That sums up the entire liberal outlook on society and state power succinctly and precisely. Certain government approved (read liberal approved), often government created, "victims" are more equal than the rest of us. Everything liberals do is about trying to create an unlevel playing field to benefit themselves, and their--as Obama put it--"coalitions of power."

[Talisker]

Since Congress did not include a severability clause and it is impossible to say how Congress would have structured the law if it could not include the individual mandate, the entire law should have been struck down.

That's a second lawsuit, after the issue of individual mandate is finally determined by SCOTUS. It doesn't do any good to raise it now, because this IM strikedown is being appealed by the administration.

[fortheDeclaration]

Without the individual mandate, Obamacare collapses, it cannot be funded.