[JoSixChip]

"My opinion is the mandates will go, but the rest of the law will stay."

That is the worst possible senenrio. Because then you have the whole law in place with no funding mechanism. This would cost trillions more in taxes or deficit spending.

[fatnotlazy]

Whatever happens this will cost us all a bundle

[Jim Noble]

Because then you have the whole law in place with no funding mechanism

Well, at least that would be consistent with all other Federal health legislation.

[Tublecane]

“That is the worst possible senenrio. Because then you have the whole law in place with no funding mechanism. This would cost trillions more in taxes or deficit spending.”

In that case I predict it bankrupts the insurance industry, Obama declares a National Emergency, and we end up with a true Universal Single Payer. That is, if Obama’s reelected. If Republicans win the White House and the Senate, bye-bye bill, judicial review or no judicial review. Unless the pubs stab themselves in the back again by redrawing their Maginot Line past coverage for preexisting conditions, which is a distinct possibility.