I don't doubt that if they passed Single Payer or Medicare For All

[edhopper]

The SCOTUS, or at least the 4 assholes, would vote to strike it down.
It is clear that they need no Constitutional argument to enact their right wing agenda.

[Cleita]

1. I'm afraid you are right.

This is why we need to re-elect Obama. If we have Mittens or Sanitarium in office, we will get 2 more Tea Party assholes on the court.

[ProSense]

2. Yeah, they'd

probably try to argue that the insurance companies are people too and that they're protecting their rights.

[polichick]

3. Looks like for them the ultimate c-word is not Constitution, but...

...CORPORATIONS.

[MannyGoldstein]

4. After 40+ years they'd strike down Medicare as unconstitutional?

I suppose it could happen, but i don't think it likely.

And, we'd have rioting in the streets.

[edhopper]

5. Not Medicare as it exist now for seniors,

but the Medicare For All expansion, as it was proposed during the ACA debate.

[MannyGoldstein]

6. If it was the same program, just expanded for everyone

what would the basis be for ruling it unconstitutional?

[edhopper]

7. The point of my OP

they don't need a Constitutional reason. They rule purely from a political agenda. The would come up with some constitutional double speak, but in the end they will do what their black hearts dictate.

[MannyGoldstein]

8. I fundamentally agree with you, but...

ACA is something really new and different (at the federal level), and most Americans don't want it, so it's easy for them to blow it up. Medicare is old stuff and is loved by the vast majority of Americans - I don't think they'd go that far (but it wouldn't be totally shocking if they did).

[TheKentuckian]

9. True, walking into a trap just means they are more likely to get away with it.