Posted on 04/01/2012 9:23:14 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Dean: Individual mandate 'not really necessary'
Published April 01, 2012 | FoxNews.com
Former Democratic Party chief Howard Dean said Sunday that the so-called individual mandate is "not really necessary" to the federal health care overhaul, and said a Supreme Court decision to invalidate the provision could end up helping President Obama.
The Supreme Court met privately on Friday to discuss the case, though a decision is not expected to be made public until June.
A central challenge in the case was over whether the requirement that Americans buy health insurance is constitutional. Further, the justices heard arguments on whether a ruling against the mandate should invalidate the health care law as a whole.
The Obama administration argued that, in that instance, a couple major parts of the law that are tied to the mandate would have to go, but that the rest of the law should stand. Opponents of the law say the entirety of the overhaul should be invalidated if the mandate is ruled unconstitutional.
Dean, though, downplayed the implications for Obama of a landmark ruling against the mandate.
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It doesn`t matter if the overturning of Obamacare ends up helping Obama. It`s pretty much a wash, since Romney isn`t going to win in November anyway. The GOP Senate candidates are the ones who should jump on the issue once the USSC pulls the plug, defining what the party WILL do to fix the issue. That`ll be a fleeting chance to regenerate some anti-Obama fervor again.
We really are just the peasants to be controlled by these people. And they are a lot better at it than they were in ages past.
Jesus was right. People are sheep.
Fortunately His sheep know his voice. But in a democracy the rest of them have a stronger vote, so we get what we get.
They don't give a rat's behind about the funding -- that was all for show while they tried to round up the votes to pass the thing. Without IM, the private insurance companies collapse -- unless they're allowed to raise rates by 20% or so. And you can be sure Sebelius won't allow that.
Then it's single payer, baby!
In lieu of tax increases, 0bama could ask for an increase in the debt ceiling, to “help all the folks (aka strawmen) dying in the streets”
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