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Old 04-02-2012, 11:31 AM
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In case you missed it. The Congressional Budget Office has " scored" the impact of the Supreme Court overturning the individual mandate portion of ObamaCare. Here's what they project will happen....
  • 16 million people will come off the roles of those insured by private insurance companies.
  • Because of the loss of premium income, the insurance companies will have to increase premiums for those remaining policy holders by 15%.
  • Because of the increase in premiums, employers will drop offering company-paid health insurance to an additional 4 million people.
So, if those suing the government are successful, 20 million people will be returned to relying on hospital emergency rooms for their healthcare. The rest of us will pay 15% higher premiums to pay for these using ER's but not paying. The cost of our healthcare will continue to escalate as a percentage of our GDP. And the results in the quality of American healthcare won't improve.

Now I ask you, if it took 14 months for the Congress to create ObamaCare, how long might it take for them to come up with a 'replacement' law to replace what the Supreme Court might overturn? Will they even try?

Is this what we really want?
Again, the o.p. appears to want the states' attorneys general to ignore the CONSTITUTIONALITY of this law/mandate.

If the Supreme Court took the case because of the constitutional questions, then that is good enough for me.

The Supreme Court case is about constitutionality, not whether keeping or tossing it will cause more fiscal collapse caused by possibly keeping it or striking it down.

And BTW, I think proponents of the Obamacare law know that THAT is not the only way of resolving the healthcare FINANCE problems we have.