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Honestly....if the mandate is shot down it's a pretty short run victory for Conservatism. You basically take off the table the "conservative" option of fixing healthcare and holding down costs. All that's pretty much left is an employer mandate or single payer. It may not be in 5 or 10 years but healcare will be revisited and now the "free market" option may be off the table via a conservative supreme court.
Thats very nice spin... but it will basically overturn the crown jewel of President Obama's first term. That will have a domino effect. Now while disneydude blames "getting stuck with" the mandate and blames it on blue-dogs and Republicans, the fact is Pelosi and Reid were the architects of this bill and they saw this as the best option to get passed by Congress. No one twisted Pelosi or Reid or Obama's arm. Obama gave this to his Democratic friends and was instrubmental in it's crafting as well as it's support - remember he supported this bill for over a year. The blame stuff doesn't flush nor does minimizing the political fallout of this being overturned.
What this will do is make it very difficult for people and States to understand what they need to do. The question then quickly becomes when Congress goes back to square one and either saves portions of the bill or starts over, how and what will it look like? Will it get passed by Congress? Polarization will be at an all time high if it's struck down in June and nothing will happen until after the election. So we're looking at 2013 before this is even broached again, unless some emergency provisions are put in place so the entire health care system doesn't collapse... what it will do is provide yet another opportunity for American citizens to vote for Congressional membership who will, hopefully, put in place a revised health care system that doesn't bankrupt us and that can cover the most amount of people without forcing people to purchase said insurance.