The more information I gather regarding the current debate in the Supreme Court over Obamacare, the more I find that independent minds generally perceive the individual mandate of the law to be unconstitutional. Many 'experts' are predicting that the individual mandate will be scrapped, and the remainder of the law kept in place.
You need to be extremely alarmed, for these two reasons:
1. the judicial branch of government was NEVER designed to 'line-item-veto' upon receiving a case to judge a law's constitutionality. It must either uphold the law as is, or strike down the law as is. That's it. Only the legislature has to ability to design laws and pass them. Therefore, if the Supreme Court modifies the law in any way by cherry picking certain clauses, but striking down others, it has just taken on the role of legislating. Based on my fifth grade understanding of checks and balances, that is a no no.
2. If the individual mandate is scrapped, but the remainder of the law kept in place, the item from the remainder to focus on is the 'pre-existing conditions' clause. The clause states that no person can be turned down for pre-existing conditions. Wow, so caring and lovely, right? What it means is that a person can have no insurance, get AIDS, cancer, a degenerative disk in every single vertebrae all at once, and require sponge baths for the rest of their life, and then after the diagnosis decide that they need insurance. By law, then, if the remainder of Obamacare passes, the pre-existing conditions clause means that no insurance company can refuse the needy person health care. Doesn't this go against the concept of insurance? Yes. Why would anyone carry health care? Good question. Wouldn't this put every insurance company out of business? Maybe.
The above scenario will certainly cost insurance companies a lot of money. But if there is an individual mandate forcing people to buy health care, this will give insurance companies a lot of money. The big enraging question is: what happens if the individual mandate is dropped, but all of the other clauses, particularly the 'pre-existing conditions' clause, is kept?
The answer is that every private health care company will go out of business. It will be impossible for them to pay their rent, much less turn a profit, within one month of the law being fully implemented.
What you have to realize is that this thing is going to be sold to you as a compromise. They want you to think that you have won. They have purposefully focused on the individual mandate as the big thing. They will part ways with it faster than you can say 'one payer system'. By parting with it, you have just been duped into government run health care. What is extremely alarming is that Solicitor General Verrilli, who argued all aspect of Obamacare in the Supreme Court on behalf of the government, seemed to sound like he was the member of the JV debate team when TRYING to explain the validity of the individual mandate.
On the other stuff, he was his normal respectable self. Weird.
When Obummer said "if you like your health care plan, you can keep it" here is what he meant: I really don't care about your health care plan, but that really doesn't matter. You won't be able to keep your health care plan, because that company is going to go broke, I promise. But you can keep it if you want to. Snicker snicker, giggle giggle.
The whole law must be struck down, or we will be fundamentally changed as a nation. Wake up.
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