Obamacare... national health care, passed under Obama, much as
proposed by Richard Nixon 40 years ago.

Seven of the 24 lawsuits against the law have been dismissed.
Most of the rest are awaiting motions or decisions on motions.
Only two appear to have serious standing so far. Both only on
the matter of the mandate.

All of the lawsuits considered by most to have a real chance
focus on the mandate.

Actually, almost all the suits involve the mandate. One of these
seems to be closely watched.

Obamacare, and I believe Democrats should embrace the name, will
surive those lawsuits. What the right misses is, those lawsuits
will pretty much guarantee the survival of the law.

If those lawsuits fail, and they will surely go to the supreme
court, that's it, the law will stand. Game over.

If one of the lawsuits prevails, and that will still go all the
way to the supreme court, that will only eliminate the mandate.
As much as the mandate is a critical part of the bill, it will
survive without it.

What the right misses about this is, the mandate is the only
part of the bill that the public opposes. Most of the rest of
the bill provides things the American people do support for the
most part, or are indifferent to.

The people support banning insurance refusal for pre-existing
conditions.

The people do believe children should be covered.

The people do believe the elderly should be able to consult with
their doctors or other health care professionals about end of
life care.

The public does support Hospice care.

All this dispite the fact that the right has lied about much of
this.

And if it ever gets close to the bill being declared
unconstitutional on it's basis, the American people will wake
up to the fact that if National Health Care is unconstitutional,
so is Medicare.

If the republicans put this country in a position where Medicare
is at risk of being declared unconstitutional the republicans
will face holy hell.

So, if the mandate stands, game over.

If the mandate fails, Obamacare stands without it. That and the
republicans will be faced with growing millions losing health
care coverage, and they will have to come up with some way to
provide it.

Obama care will survive, and coverage will be provided to the
entire population, either by the mandate, or some other means.

I have always opposed the mandate, not because it's morally
wrong, but because it's dumb. There is no way the government is
going to come up with any standard by which they are going to
establish a value of "affordable coverage" that actually means
anything to a lot of people. If you fine someone for not haveing
coverage, and that person doesn't have coverage because he's too
poor to afford it, the fine just makes his poverty worse.

However, some means will have to be found to provide care for
all if this is to remain a decent country. And it will,
eventually. How many will die before then is the question those
opposing national health care will have to live with.



BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

... Don't tell me you are pro-life if you don't support health care for all. --- Via Silver Xpress V4.5/P [Reg]
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