Medical Doctors for Single Payer Urge Supreme Court to Strike Down Individual Insurance Mandate

[kenny blankenship]

42. "and that alternative is a single payer national health insurance system"

He could stop right there. The SCOTUS will never find this criminal, forced insurance purchasing unConstitutional for the simple reason that they all KNOW what that alternative means: Government shoving aside an insanely lucrative cartel of financial industry players who prey on the 99%, and letting the people provide healthcare for themselves at maximum efficiency. Single Payer would signal the beginning of the end for the national mindset of "you're on your own". The war of each against all could finally begin to wind down. So, five "justices" will be solidly against striking down the ACA and the mandate right there. They may not love the ACA, but the real constituency of the Republican party FUCKING LOVES the idea of using the law to force people to buy things, and it fucking HATES the idea that the people might someday assert their sovereign right to look out for the public interest and put an end to a highly profitable extortion racket. Their clerks will write their opinions for them as the conservative "Justices" quietly sit on the bench and play Angry Birds on their phones. The four "Liberals" will be just as comfy with the oozing corporatism (Benito's sense of the word) of the ACA, and any of the four on the Dem side thinking of getting out of line will be yanked back by the need to save face for Obama.

"If there's any justice in this land..." you could have stopped right there.