After reading Silberman’s opinion upholding the individual health insurance mandate, I think the SCOTUS will uphold it as well, and conservatives should applaud them doing so.
In my view, conservative politicians that oppose the mandate are misreading both their base as well as independents. On two separate occasions recently, conservatives said they opposed Obamacare because the penalties for freeloading weren’t high enough.
Rather than attacking the mandate’s wisdom after it is upheld, as Eliot Spitzer predicts conservative politicians will do, I think they will pivot and say that they have always been in favor of it.
It is the far left that should hope the mandate to purchase private health insurance is struck down, because that will pave the path to mandatory public health insurance.
