And on the subject of our friend Wendell Potter, I urge you to read what he has to say in the New York Times about the junk insurance his his former employers foist on unwitting Americans.

He's truly the best friend Americans could have, speaking out tirelessly about those responsible for our grotesque healthcare system.

He knows all the duplicitous posturing of the Murder By Spreadsheet health insurance industry. He says privately as well as publically, that he's positive the industry wants the Affordable Care Act implemented.

You have to remember, the health law is a huge boon to the industry. They are not fighting it — in fact, they are moving toward it. Whatever regulations and changes they may have to put up with, the fact remains that millions of uninsured Americans will now have to buy insurance. That represents massive new profits for the industry. So yes, big insurers are complying with the law.

This sets up a delicious problem for the SCOTUS and the Republican Party demanding its repeal. Don't doubt Wendell. He says the industry is moving toward implementation because it will benefit handsomely from 30 million new customers.

To add further immediacy to Wendell's warnings in the New York Times, in early December Kaiser Health News broke a story about the five largest insurers, Aetna, Cigna, Humana, UnitedHealthcare and Wellpoint shopping around Washington for a public relations firm to represent them. Bottom line is, these corporations need even more than AHIP can provide.

As the PPACA begins the long road to implementation, the insurers want to be sure that they get the 30 million new "covered lives", with minimal regulation. Insurers want the individual mandate, with no strings attached. This is what some of us would call business as usual. If you want to talk about "severability", I'd be way more concerned about the efforts underway to strip the ACA of all meaningful regulation. This is a way bigger issue than whether the SCOTUS will rule the individual mandate constitutional. If the insurers prevail, the result will be 30 million new victims, required to buy for profit junk insurance with only minimal regulation.





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