[Sub-Driver]

Never mind.........

[Signalman]

This is like a bully who gets punched in the mouth by a kid he’s been taunting and who loses a few teeth and says, “I don’t need these teeth, I can eat better without them”.

[Sacajaweau]

Whoever mentioned the 2700 pages...was trying to tell us that this is TOOOOOOOOO huge to become law...and makes the government a "brute".

Obama wants this to get shot down. Then he can do piecemeal...like "the pill for all" via executive order.

[Libloather]

How about the ‘go to prison’ part?

[Brilliant]

I think Dean is right. What the conservatives are missing (and they are always 2 steps behind the curve) is that Obama doesn’t need a mandate if the government subsidizes healthcare plans. If you elect not to have coverage, that is your right, but under their plan, you will be forfeiting the subsidy that everyone else gets.

[pogo101]

You’d think Dean, as a physician, at least would understand that this (the IM) is a crucial funding mandate.

Otherwise, young people never will buy the expensive “Cadillac plan” that pays for the huge losses incurred in covering the elderly and the unemployed-up-to-age-26-who-live-with-parents, etc. Instead, those employed young people would either FORGO insurance or buy a cheap major-med-only plan.

Without IM, the funding mechanism collapses.

[TexasRedeye]

...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.

Baghdad Bob whistling past the graveyard!

[A. Morgan]

Spin, spin, spin....

[ICE-FLYER]

Dean followed with "Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue!!!"

[OpusatFR]

So. Where is the money going to come from to pay for the rest of the bill?

The whole thing falls on the demise of the individual tax.

[Truth29]

Actually, I think Dean is right in another sense. Obamacare is about power and control, not health care. If the revenue is cut off, but the mandate continues, then the whole structure collapses and you can bet that Obama would make sure that health care in general collapses. The rescue offered would be one payer national health care. The implied or explicit threat would be to adopt Obama’s proposal or die.

Then, if The Won gets his one government system, he can use it to crush and kill conservative opposition. His supporters get care and the rest get to take a number and a pill. Right thinking is rewarded. Wrong thinking and you have a short life span. The way out of this trap is a full repeal of the entire law, if the Supremes will go that far.

[FrankR]

[kenmcg]

The vote that they took on Friday is supposed to be a big secret. Would not be surprised if Kagan or Satomayor tip off Bam as to what the vote was.

[ScottinVA]

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.

[cuban leaf]

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.