Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna

Oh, there'll be lots who will suddenly "give a patootie" when they find they got what others told them they should wish for. From today's Wall Street Journal...

• Pharmaceutical companies will very likely cancel the deep discounts the bill required them to give seniors whose prescription expenses were in the "doughnut hole" of the Medicare prescription drug program.

• Medical residents who got grants based on their agreement to practice in either low-income clinics or unserved rural areas will certainly lose that financial support.

• The insurance exchange setup that was to permit and encourage health insurance companies to compete nationally gets disbanded. Insurance companies will return to competing only on a state to state basis, where it's common that one insurer tends to dominate each state. The reduced competition is projected to result in significant premium increases.

• And of course 30-40 million people return to being uninsured. That doesn't mean they won't get healthcare--they will. It's just that they won't be required to pay for it. All if those who do pay for their health insurance will see massive premium increases as the result of healthcare providers passing along their costs of treating the uninsured on to those who are paying for insurance by increasing their charges to insurance companies.

ObamaCare is far from perfect. There are lots of improvements and changes possible. But if he Court overturns it, as expected, neither Congress or Romney has presented an alternative plan. Romney championed essentially the same plan as ObamaCare in Massachusetts, where it is widely popular and reportedly effective. But Romney has now eschewed his plan, responding to right-wing pressure, even though he has not presented any kind of alternative with any specifics for use nationally. Does he mean that healthcare isn't a national problem? That the states shoud be responsible for addressing he healthcare problems on a state-by-state basis? If that's his idea, he hasn't said so.

No, Richie, if the Court overturns ObamaCare there'll be millions of people who'll give a patootie. I know I will. And I suspect you will too, when you get that letter with the big premium increase. Or if you get really sick and require expensive treatment, that insurance cancellation notice.

You may get what you wish for. But I don't think you'll be at all happy about it.