Posted on 03/28/2012 1:23:55 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
If the Supreme Court strikes down all or part of President Obamas health care law, it will have unraveled a legislative compromise that many liberals had viewed with suspicion from the beginning.
In one of the ironies of recent politics, Mr. Obama was a late convert to the merits of the individual mandate that now appears to be in danger of being declared unconstitutional.
But the presidents embrace of the mandate and his willingness to abandon a so-called public option to get a health care deal was a hard pill to swallow for many of his Democratic supporters.
The Affordable Care Act promises to provide health insurance to millions who lacked it. But it also stops far short of the idea that health care is a basic right for everyone living in the country. And it embraces the market-based system of private health care delivery that has long existed in America.
For many progressive activists and voters, the decision by the court in June could reopen a debate that they thought they had lost two years ago. Rather than be dismayed if the court overturns the health care law, some liberals may see it as an unexpected opportunity.
Politically, there is almost no chance of a new effort to achieve universal health care coverage before the election in the fall. But if the current law is overturned, eventually there would be a new push from Democrats to achieve the goals they have pursued for decades.
Still, its far from clear how progressives might regroup if the court rules against the mandate, as Tuesdays questions from the justices suggested they might.
Here are three possibilities:
SALVAGE: If the justices invalidate the individual mandate but stop short of declaring the entire law unconstitutional, progressives could try to fix it
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a legislative compromise that many liberals had viewed with suspicion from the beginning.
Folks, they are using every spin technique at their
disposal. I’ve even seen quotes from them that it
was all a republican idea in the first place.
Unbelievable!
Exactly. They’ve built these coalitions of collectivists. Some of the members of these collectives should be waking up about now...realizing that they too are being FORCED down a dirt-road-cul-de-sac to be robbed or killed by these National Socialist criminals.
BUMP!
DEFUND socialist collectives, foreign and domestic.
Jim Jones Kool Aid, get your Jim Jones Kool Aid right here.
It would be steeply progressive, but none would escape. All (of them) would share.
The real healthcare system would continue to make use of the latest and greatest technological advances in medicine ~ the Democrat system would be limited to what is available in government hospitals in Birmingham England (using that place as a guideline eh).
That way the Democrats would get the misery they so dearly love and deserve.
The rest of us would be happy.
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