re: #17 Killgore Trout

It will depend on what sections are deemed unconstitutional. If the individual mandate is struck down, that blows a huge revenue hole that can’t be easily filled. That might kill related provisions, including the guaranteed issue and other insurance reforms. It wouldn’t completely gut the reform, but it would undermine Congressional intent.

After all, some provisions of the PPACA are already operative notwithstanding the individual mandate that takes effect 01/01/2014. Those provisions would likely be retained.

All this assumes of course that the Court strikes down the mandate. Also, even if the mandate is struck down it might not kill other provisions since the Court - only offering up that it needs to resolve matters in a constitutional manner.