Reply #17: Yes!

[shimmergal]

Forcing anyone to buy health insurance from a private entity amounts to involuntary servitude.

If a mandate passes, I expect there'll be lawsuits from right-wingers to the effect that ANY mandate is unconstitutional.

Given the present make-up of the Supreme Court, it's possible they'd uphold such an argument.

OTOH, don't knnow if the fearsome four + one would want to upend the PTB that drastically. It's possible if progressives filed a companion suit, objecting only to the subsidizing of private, profit-driven companies as unconstitutional, they'd go for that, as a "compromise" solution (no matter how odd that thinking seems to us.)

Anyhow, some legal eagles need to be thinking along these lines.