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In reply to the discussion: 67% [View all]MadHound
(34,179 posts)Or Rasmussen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-payer_health_care#Public_opinion_in_the_United_States
As far as the individual mandate goes, you are trying to put me into a position that I oppose. As I've said many times on this thread, I want to see the individual mandate struck down. Therefore, if I want it struck down, how am I defending corporate profits?
What I am saying is that without the individual mandate, the ACA is dead. This is true on two counts. First, most laws have a severability clause, a clause that declares that if one portion of the law is struck down, then the rest of the law is still in effect. The ACA doesn't have such a clause, therefore if the mandate is struck down, the SC could declare the whole law null and void due to the lack of a severability clause.
Even if that isn't the case, if the individual mandate is struck down and the rest of the law remains, it will be fatally flawed due to a severe lack of funding. No money, no way the law can work. It is that simple, and even the President has admitted this.
I suggest that you educate yourself a bit more on this issue, for it is apparent that you don't know what is going on with it.