Unbelievable. 2000 pages of regulation and it didn't have room for the boilerplate addenda.

This is indeed bad news. Without the mandate for young healthy people to buy insurance, there won't be enough money to pay for treating chronically sick people. This makes the rest of Obamacare an instant financial ruin for private insurance companies.

Unfortunately the judge chose to sever the individual mandate instead of throwing the law out in its entirety. So if this decision stands unchanged (doubtful), it just means that private insurance companies will start going out of business, forcing the government to step in and provide a government run program.

But at least two and possibly three more decisions will be written on this over the next couple of years, so things will likely change.

"Unfortunately the judge chose to sever the individual mandate instead of throwing the law out in its entirety."

If I understand correctly that was all he could do. That was the thing that Virginia had sued about, so that was all the judge could rule on. Much of LackwitCare is not clearly unconstitutional -- one of the worst ideas in human history, and certainly contrary to the spirit of the Constitution nad its concept of a limited central government -- but not clearly unconstitutional the way the individual mandate is.

If you kill the mandate, you kill ObamaCare. It can't work without it...not that it would work with it.

If the mandate is thrown out and the pre-existing coverage left in then individual insurance in the USA will end.

I wonder if there is a business setting up a health insurance company offshore??? It would be worth it, if for no other reason than to flip off the bureaucrats when they whine about it.

"I wonder if there is a business setting up a health insurance company offshore??? It would be worth it, if for no other reason than to flip off the bureaucrats when they whine about it."

Don't worry, it would swiftly be made illegal. Can't have the proles making their own decisions you know.