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To: combjelly who wrote (656727)	5/27/2012 5:00:44 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1579760

CJ, Your scenario won't happen for two reasons. Lobbyists and the Citizen United ruling. We already have a ton of money and lobbying influencing (or obstructing) legislation, and yet the trend of health care regulation is still more more more. I wouldn't mind if all of this was just for safety, but these days it's more toward the notion that health care is an entitlement. Tenchusatsu

To: combjelly who wrote (656727)	5/27/2012 7:21:17 PM
From: i-node	2 Recommendations Respond to of 1579760

>> Your scenario won't happen for two reasons. Lobbyists and the Citizen United ruling. It takes a lot of money to run a campaign. Neither party is going to piss off those with deep pockets. I think it will be saved by the Supreme Court because they appear to have recognized at once that Obamacare must be killed because if they don't kill it there are no limits beyond which government cannot go in controlling people's lives. The crystalizing point was when Alito asked the question, whether or not a 20-something year old might be required to purchase burial insurance, since the rational for requiring it would be precisely the same premise under which Obamacare would succeed. At any rate, after this ruling, the climb will be much harder to push this regulation down our throats going forward.