As we await the U.S. Supreme Court decision sometime in June on President Obama's Affordable Care Act, Americans are pondering what will happen if the insurance mandate portion of the 2,700-page bill is ruled unconstitutional, a very real possibility given the tough questioning the provision received when the court heard oral arguments last week.
However you stand on the question of requiring Americans to purchase health insurance, the possibility of rejecting the primary funding provision of the law, and allowing the rest of the huge law to stand, is a dire prospect. Even our free-spending lawmakers flinch at the possibility of vast new entitlements in the face of virtually no corresponding funding source.
We hope the court throws the whole thing out, the issue goes back to Congress, and that this time, our lawmakers can draft a law that isn't too long and complicated to read and comprehend.
Surely, that isn't asking too much.
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