It time to put an end to the GOP talking point repeated here on DU again and again.

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39. The Ultimate Gift to Insurance Corporations

If the Supreme Court upholds the mandate, here is the future:

The health insurance corporations will immediately begin to use their billions of dollars to begin undercutting every regulation of the ACA that cuts into their profits.

Watch for intense lobbying and campaign contributions to Senators and Representatives to weaken, for instance, the regulation banning denial of coverage for a 'preexisting condition'.

Within a very, very few years we will all be mandated into paying the insurance corporations and be right back where we were before this legislation was passed -- except that the insurance industry will be even richer and will have even more power over us. (And, watch how the shameless Repuglicans will have no problem whatsoever is becoming defenders of an amended, 'deregulated' ACA.)

We all must buy their product or pay a fine -- from the beginning I have thought that there couldn't be a greater gift to the health insurance industry than the mandate on individuals.

Sadly, because of the two party system in this nation that almost requires us to pick one side or the other, we are stuck with the pathetic notion that "Obamacare is all we have to defend."

My biggest disillusion with Pres. Obama is still his capitulation on the 'public plan option' ... let alone his never presenting single-payer as an alternative plan.

Frankly, whether or not the Supreme Court upholds the law or throws it out, I don't think we're going to be much better off (and maybe worse off) in the intermediate term.