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Why the mandate isn’t the problem

The long, trudging march of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act toward the U.S. Supreme Court is nearing the end, of the road, as court after court clash over the constitutionality of the landmark legislation.

By Denis Storey | Updated on October 01, 2011

The long, trudging march of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act toward the U.S. Supreme Court is nearing the end, of the road, as court after court clash over the constitutionality of the landmark legislation.

But there one’s small problem. While the individual mandate clearly emerges as the point of judicial contention, someone forgot to tell the courts about the rest of the law. Because, while the law remains a legal and logistical mess, the PPACA without the individual mandate is something altogether worse.

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