Bring it on. G/L with your pro-pre-existing conditions exclusions, pro-recision, pro-medical bankruptcies, pro-Medicare pt D donut hole, pro-deficit agenda.
Sounds like a winner.
Going to run on a "ban exclusions, but eliminate the Ins mandate" platform?
Ins co's are going to love that. Force them to cover the most expensive customers for all costs, but don't increase the risk pool? HA!
Now the wingnuts on the SCOTUS have eliminated corp donations limits, they can bury repubs who try to eliminate the bill. O, sweet irony!
#'s don't work anyhow, unless you raise premiums on the few customers you have through the roof. The mandate is the only realistic way it was going to work.
Either way, checkmate. A year of obstruction, distortion and lies and nothing to show for it.
A few seats may be lost, but not enough to overturn a veto. Activist conservative judges may even try to dismiss the will of Congress, but it will take years to move thru the courts. It took 8 years to overturn McCain-Fiengold. All provisions of the bill will be in fullforce, and no one will want to overturn them to go back to a time you could lose your HC just for being sick. We will just be debating the fixes to the inevitable weaknesses of this bill to further strengthen it by then.
Game over man.