My son who is now 19 is still on my policy and can remain there until he reaches age 26. If SC strikes it down, no more health coverage for him.

But I do agree with our other ideas, sue the hell out of all of them.

he's too interested in making money now. He's got himself quite a little ride service going for himself right now.

Like the system that's used in every country except the United States.

Republicans would rather people fall dead in the streets than create another beloved government program.

Maybe you think lawyers will jump up and pay the tens of thousands of dollars to file the lawsuits. Not going to happen.

But I'm not a lawyer.
anyone should be able to file a lawsuit.

But it takes thousands of dollars in research and deposition costs to have something a court would look at. If you think people have that type of money laying around to file endless lawsuits you are in a different world than I am.

Hayes was making the same point that a quicker implementation would have made the benefits more apparent and therefore difficult to attack. He had a guest on that basically said the delay was necessary to ramp up the capacity of primary care physicians to absorb the estimated 30 million new patients seeking primary care. He gave the example of Massachusetts, a small state which "turned on the spigot" with their plan, adding 500,00 new patients without building up primary care capacity and the problems that caused.

He also mentioned there was 11 billion dollars in the ACA to build up that necessary primary care capacity, but Republicans whittled that down to 250 million. I thought he made a pretty convincing case for the rationale behind the delay.

Here's a link to the Up with Chris Hayes website. The whole interview was interesting but this particular point is addressed starting at about the 2:25 mark.

http://video.msnbc.msn.com/up-with-chris-hayes/47937222

If ACA is overturned, it will be entirely legal for insurers to deny coverage due to pre-existing conditions.

to repeal the law on the basis of denying life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...and cruel and unreasonable punishment for the sick.

Scalia is in the pocket of the health insurance lobby, they may very well tell him to keep the mandate but invalidate other provisions that they don't like.

So the mandate might stay, while 26 year olds get bumped off their parents insurance and have to purchase their own insurance (at higher rates). Also bump off the 20/25% profit ceiling provision. Also dump any provisions which forces them to give insurance to high risk or pre-existing condition paitients (or lift any price caps on these individuals so they provide it at crazy high rates).

So that's probably what will happen. Unless Kennedy balks at the blatant corporate takeover, but maybe they've got incriminating photos of him.