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Old 04-03-2012, 09:25 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?
This says it better than I, of course that is a small task for anyone...

"In the span of one week, Democrats went from dismissing the possibility that the Supreme Court would strike down the 2010 law mandating individuals to buy health insurance to consoling themselves that any such action would have a silver lining.

James Carville says it would help the Democrats in the election. Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson writes that it would make single payer -- a government health system as in the U.K. and Canada -- “inevitable.” Other liberals, and even the occasional right-of-center analyst, have echoed that point: The conservative legal challenge to President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul could prove self-defeating.

It’s an interesting and counterintuitive analysis, but it’s almost certainly wrong. If the court undoes Obamacare, either in whole or in part, conservatives who would like to reduce the government’s role in health care are likely to get policies much more to their liking.

Let’s say the court strikes down the entire law. The Democratic fantasy goes something like this: The public will still be upset about the number of Americans without insurance, rising premiums and the difficulty people with pre-existing conditions have getting insurance. Republicans will have no plan for achieving universal coverage. Sooner or later, single payer -- which would probably be more popular than a mandate, and thus an easier sell to the public -- will prevail"

AND THIS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART...

"Reality-check time: When Obamacare became law, Democrats had more power in Washington than at any time since the Carter administration in the 1970s. They had the presidency and lopsided majorities in both houses of Congress. Because conservative Democrats have declined in numbers, it was probably the most liberal Congress since 1965-66. They were still barely able to pass the law. And that was with important medical industries either neutralized or in favor of the legislation, which they would not be in the case of single payer. "

Democrats Resort to Magical Thinking on Obamacare - Bloomberg