Then Obamacare will be upheld. After all, what is more pro-corporate than giving a mandated monopoly, with weak price controls, to an entire for profit industry?

Even without the ruling, it's a lightning rod for conservative activism against this presidency. Can you really, credibly argue that corporate-loving, bought-and-sold conservatives are getting all of this money and support from Wall Street to tear down a corporate-friendly law?

The law can be used to bludgeon Obama and Democrats politically, yet if it stands, can be used by corporations to make obscene profit.

It isn't the law itself that corporate conservatives are upset about, after all, if that were the case they would have taken Romneycare all the way to the Supreme Court. It is the fact that it comes from this administration that has them pissed. Obamacare is, in all reality, the product of several conservative precedents extending all the way back to Nixon. Yet here is a nominally Democratic precedent who stands to get the credit for it.

But the fact is, no matter who gets the credit, we the people lose if it passes SC muster. With weak price controls the insurance industry will hike premiums through the roof, further draining the middle class. Perhaps worse, now that we've done this health care "reform", the issue won't be touched for at least a generation, and we the people will have to suffer under it until then. If it is overturned by the courts, we will have to revisit the health care issue, and hopefully, if the Dems will truly fight, get something better.

. . . politically.

Most likely, in that scenario, it will go back to being nothing more than a political football. At least we can build on this act; or whatever is left standing. Starting from ground zero just emboldens all of the elements that you're concerned about to press for even more. I remember a much more corporate-friendly republican initiative. They won't just stand aside and let progressive pols have their way if this falls. More likely, they'll make proposals along the lines of whatever the court's conservatives will allow and claim it's just.

I still don't think the argument that the health law is some corporate dream holds much water in the face of the massive expenditure (of money and political capital) from those very interests to overturn it.

to generate contributions/votes.

It's the new abortion.

. . . there would be nothing at all standing in the insurance cos. way. They could just of doing whatever they wanted with the insured. It just doesn't add up that they're actually pressing the Court to kill a bill which critics claim is such a bonanza for them. Why risk upsetting it at all if it's such a slam-dunk good thing for their 'corporate' buddies? It just defies all logic to make that argument. There are so many contradictions in claiming conservatives are working so hard to overturn a law which is supposed to be such a benefit to their benefactors. I just don't buy that it's both a bludgeon they can't get enough of, and a honeypot that they're working overtime to upset.