re: #159 Obdicut

For some reason, even with all the recent media coverage, I still think the likely-hood is it will be 6-3 or 5-4 in favor of upholding the mandate and the law, but maybe I’m delusional :P.

I just get the sense that this court is extremely political and hyper-interested in their legacy / place-in-history. Demographics already guarantee big problems for future health-care costs, and their arguments seemed to indicate their awareness of the fact that if they dismantle the ACA, no real reform will likely be in the cards again for a long time. I just got the feeling that they have at least some wariness of being in mind as healthcare costs skyrocket and pundits grope around for a scapegoat, as the ranks of the uninsured swell and everyone remembers the 10’s-of-millions that the ACA would have covered, as folks remember some of the preventative care benefits they’d already started to internalize & look forward too…