>>Did the Trump administration kill Obamacare? No, but it may have just put this terrible law on life support. It’s up to the courts to decide what happens next.<<
Excellent analysis, but I just wonder what the courts could do. Without the tax, it will collapse on itself.
Now there is a lot of junk in oozocare but the bulk of it is unsustainable.
The courts are not above declaring the lawful elimination of the mandate to be unconstitutional and directing congress to put it back in, at an appropriately high level. They don't care about the actual law anymore, just getting their policy goals embedded into immutable law that will require a constitutional amendment to overturn.
If the court rules the entire act unconstitutional the mandates on employers (over 50 employees), insurers (contraceptive coverage), the restrictions on various plans (catastrophic coverage limits) would all go away.