Health Insurance

We see the attacks on the Affordable Care Act continue as the administration has decided to support the ruling that it is unconstitutional.

Almost no one thinks that is a good legal argument, it is based on some convoluted logic concerning the last decision, that the individual mandate was constitutional under the congress' ability t tax.

Since subsequently they reduced the penalty (tax) to zero, it is no longer a real tax, meaning the individual mandate is unconstitutional.  The argument goes on to say that the mandate is intertwined so deeply that if it is unconstitutional, the whole thing is.

Now this flies in the face of the act passed by congress that reduced the tax.

However, as odd as the argument actually is, the question arises why would the administration attack the rest of the law?

It has become very popular with most people, at least the provisions related to the pre-existing conditions, the dependent age increase, and the increase in coverage to so many.

It is almost as if the administration, who got hurt in the last mid-terms over health care, want to give their incumbents a handicap.

Still it is something to watch and in the very unlikely scenario where the entire law is invalidated, we will have to see what is offered up instead.

Maybe millions of uninsured, the Republican goal.