If the individual mandate is struck down, the funding mechanism for the entire law goes away. So how in your opinion can the law be paid for?
Sorry, but if the mandate to buy ins is found unconstitutional the law will collapse just as many past unfunded laws have.
Understand that neither my opinion, nor your opinion, counts in this conversation. Understand only that the Obama administration only cares about preserving Obamacare and its long-term radical promise -- in whatever semblance they can maintain.
There are arguments that the left may actually view the stripping of the Individual Mandate from the act as being an opportunity.
Because other provisions of the act require the insurance industry to a.) cover everybody, regardless of pre-existing conditions and b.) accept any and every application. Meaning that people could go completely without insurance, without penalty...until they suffered an injury or disease and needed it.
Of course, the industry would have to raise their rates to reflect the new higher (and certain) risk factor they were working under. Under these circumstances, why would anybody buy insurance...until they needed it? Which means it wouldn't be "insurance" at all -- merely a payment plan for projected costs.
At this point, insurance providers quickly leave the market...leaving it to the government to provide coverage as the "insurer of last resort"...achieving the single-payer plan that Obama and the Democrats wanted in the first place.
Of course, at this point, the Democrat's hopes hinge solely on Obama's re-election and re-gaining control of Congress. But they will do whatever they can to keep their options open...until that opportunity is closed off.
Will it collapse things like Romneycare and Tenncare which are partly fed supported? Cause Tenncare is about to bankrupt TN. It has already been downsized 3 times since it was instituted. Under a Dem shove through with a dem controlled house and sentate...we are now a GOP state by the skin of our teeth and our gov is a fence straddling moderate r. You can’t run 2 strong conservatives and a moderate, and when one conservative is trailing in the poles and won’t back out, so the moderate always wins. Which is how we got Corker and Halsam..the gov. With Alexander it was the moderate vs the socialist D who inherited his daddy’s House seat.