What if the health reform mandate dies?

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12. They didn't have the votes to do single payer when HCR was passed, and they sure don't have it now

What makes you think that the dynamics have changed that would allow universal coverage?

Most of Congress is paid off by the corporate lobby. The media and message is controlled by the special interests, and must of the populous, through ignorance, believes the gop garbage.

Social Security and Medicare are called "entitlements", and they propagate that distortion through the media every chance they get.

At the same time the wars and the military spending are never questioned through the MSM

Though I agree universal coverage is the way to go, until that happens, HCR at least will help 40 million people who don't have insurance in the meantime. It will help those who have pre-existing conditions, and helps those with children under 27 who cannot get insure.

It is still better than the system they have today.

In my view, if the court rules HCR unconstitutional, Obama loses the election, and the odds are that the house and senate both go into republican control, and the foreseeable future would mean HCR or single payer would be shelved for decades to come