Supreme Court’s conservative justices appeared deeply skeptical of mandate's constitutional basis

... so the GOPer judges are ready to find the mandate does not have a constitutional basis.

That's fine. It is therefor unconstitutional to mandate that I shall pay for the medical care of those who do not have insurance and can't pay for their health care. It is clear then, that I cannot be taxed to fund the Government's Disproportionate Share Hospital program - which compensates hospitals for providing care for those who cannot pay for it.

Those who didn't want to be part of their community, who wanted to 'go it alone' with regard to medical insurance and who did not want to be 'forced' to get health insurance - they can live (or die) with their decision. That is, if they show up at a hospital in a few years needing medical attention - they will have to pay cash - up front, for their medical care. They wouldn't want the community they didn't want to be a part of, to help them out then would they?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/supreme-court-considers-main-constitutional-question-in-health-care-law/2012/03/26/gIQAkyKWdS_story.html?wpisrc=nl_pmpolitics



The Supreme Court’s conservative justices appeared deeply skeptical that the Constitution gives Congress the power to compel Americans to either purchase health insurance or pay a penalty, as the court completed two hours of debate Tuesday on the key component of the nation’s health-care overhaul law.

Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, traditionally the justice most likely to side with the court’s liberals, suggested that the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act invoked a power “beyond what our cases allow” the Congress to wield in regulating interstate commerce.

“Can you create commerce in order to regulate it?” he asked.

The arguments revealed a familiar alignment of the court. Its four liberal justices, appointed by Democratic presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, supported the government’s argument. But one of the five conservatives appointed by Republican presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush would be needed to uphold the act, and all at some point resisted the government’s position. Their sharp questioning raised doubts about whether the individual insurance mandate could survive the Supreme Court’s historic review.