Supreme Court to hear Obamacare case

The Hill:
The Supreme Court said Monday that it will hear the legal challenges to President Obama’s healthcare law.
The high court granted a hearing in the suit filed by 26 states and the National Federation of Independent Business. The court said it will hear the lawsuit’s challenge to the healthcare law’s individual mandate — the requirement that almost all people in the United States buy insurance.
The decision means that the high court will be reviewing the healthcare law at the height of the 2012 election season. 
As they weigh the mandate, the justices will have to consider how it affects other parts of the law. If they find the coverage requirement unconstitutional, they will have to decide whether to strike it down on its own or instead strike down the entire law.
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The law has no "savings clause" which means if they rule against the mandate they can strike the entire law.  I think that is what they should do.  It was such an overreach that it needs to be killed and let a new more rational Congress start over.
 

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