“I suspect that the Court will strike down the individual mandate, and much of the rest will remain in tact.”
What the Rats forgot in their haste to pass this, was to write an exclusion clause into the bill. From what I’ve learned, if ANY part of it is overturned, the whole thing goes...they can’t save parts of it.
It’s true they did not put in a severability clause.
The problem is that there is ample precedent for the court implying severability even in the absence of such a clause.
I don’t agree with the practice, but it has been done before.