...Dems should be able to make the case that single payer is the answer - IF they hire a decent messenging expert and everybody repeats the clear, concise argument in the coming months.

The republicans don’t give a crap about what is legal. The republicans would still run to the supreme court, and have the radical right-wing supreme court strike down a single-payer healthcare law, too. Republicans don’t want to hurt the insurance companies, so I find it hard to believe republicans would just sit back and not challenge the law. Plus, the republicans are just assholes. If a single-payer healthcare law was passed, the same lies about “government takeovers,” and “death panels,” would start all over, again. The republicans would make up reasons (lies) for why single-payer healthcare is unconstitutional.

Even though people don’t like the current law, it is constitutional. The supreme court’s decision will be political. And if the current law is struck down, it won’t “open the door” for single-payer healthcare. At least, not any time soon. If the current healthcare law is struck down, we will have to wait decades again, before anybody tries to do anything about the country’s crappy healthcare system. And, a right-wing congress that is brought and paid for by insurance companies is not going to pass a single-payer healthcare law. They didn’t even want to pass the current republican healthcare law. Stop being so naïve.