Jonathan Cohn Worried in the Supreme Court

Jonathan Cohn, one of the leading voices covering the Health Care Reform debate, expresses his trepidation Wednesday afternoon after hearing the final arguments in the Affordable Care Act case before the Supreme Court.

"If there was one thing of which I was certain going into this week’s Supreme Court hearings, it was that, at worst, the justices would strike down the individual mandate and related coverage positions. In other words, they’d get rid of requirements that insurers cover everybody at a uniform price, on the theory those reforms don’t work without the mandate. But the other major pieces of the law – the expansion of Medicaid to cover 15 million people, the changes to the way Medicare pays hospitals, and so on – would stay..." continue readin here.