Again, I Predict That Mandating (Forcing) All Americans To Buy Health Insurance Will Be Declared Unconstitutional By The U.S. Supreme Court

In 2010 when the Obama Administration helped pass The Affordable Care Act. I predicted that the U.S. Supreme Court would declare that the Individual Mandate section of the Act would be declared Unconstitutional.

So after a couple of years of working its way through the courts, it appears that a Supreme Court decision on the Constitutionality of the Individual Mandate will be rendered sometime in the Summer of 2012. Again, I predict that the U.S. Supreme Court will declare that the Individual Mandate section of the Act is Unconstitutional

It is going to be back to the drawing board to figure out a methodology to fund the The Affordable Care Act. The problem is that there is NO Methodology to fund the The Affordable Care Act and all alternative funding strategies are politically and financially non-starters.

Hey, how about a novel idea? – A Single Payer Financing System. Let’s call it Medicare-For-All.

The New York Times
September 29, 2011
Some Common Ground for Legal Adversaries on Health Care
By Adam Liptak

The 2010 health care overhaul law has provoked an unprecedented clash between the federal government and 26 states, dividing them on fundamental questions about the very structure of the federal system. But the two sides share a surprising amount of common ground, too, starting with their agreement in briefs, filed on Wednesday, that the Supreme Court should resolve the clash in its current term.

Their briefs also reflect agreement on matters of substance. The two sides, along with the judges in the majority in the appeals court decision most likely to be reviewed by the justices, all said the dispute is about means rather than ends. There are other ways, they said, for Congress to achieve near-universal health coverage, some of them more expansive than what was enacted.

“Both sides agree that Congress has the constitutional power to enact a national health care system that raised taxes to support a single government agency that pays all medical bills, just like Medicare,” said Walter Dellinger, who served as acting solicitor general in the administration of President Bill Clinton and supports the law. 

Randy E. Barnett, a lawyer for some of the plaintiffs who on Wednesday sought Supreme Court review, made essentially the same point. “What I’ve said from Day 1,” he said, “is that if Medicare is constitutional then Medicare-for-everyone is constitutional.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/us/health-care-adversaries-have-common-ground.html