By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot and Right Side Patriots on cprworldwidemedia.net

Humpty Dumpty sits on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty is about to fall.
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
Can never put Humpty together again.

Humpty in this case is Obamacare and at the end of next month, the United States Supreme Court will render a decision that could well leave Humpty Dumpty shattered into 8 million pieces.

At stake are the subsidies. Should the Supreme Court hold that the subsidies are allowed only as the law was written…that ONLY the STATE exchanges are allowed to extend subsidies and NOT the FEDERAL exchange…8 million people who received subsidies from the federal exchange per the king’s executive order and not via an act of the congress…would LOSE those taxpayer subsidies thus making the “AFFORDABLE” Care Act UNaffordable to them.

If they can’t afford the cost of full-on socialism…they will drop OUT of the socialist healthcare program leaving the pool of other people’s money too shallow to draw from for the rest. Oh, there are options…everybody ELSE’S premium costs, deductibles and prescription costs could be jacked up into outer space to cover the shortfall but that will render socialismcare unaffordable even to those who can, but just barely, afford it now and they TOO will beat a hasty exit.

I believe the Supreme Court will indeed rule against the king on this one and here’s why…

The king…Obama…relied on subterfuge, bribes and outright lies to get Obamacare passed through the congress. He did it in the dark of night and congress as a whole was prevented from reading the bill before they PASSED the bill but congress…CONGRESS…did pass the bill and because Obamacare was a bill passed into law BY congress…according to our Constitution…ONLY congress is then allowed to AMEND… the bill.

Should the Supreme Court rule FOR the king…both congress and the Constitution would be rendered null and void as the legal precedent would be set that a PRESIDENT…ANY president…has complete control of the laws in our nation and while I expect a standard 5-4 or possibly a 6-3 on this…I don’t believe that even the liberal Supremes are butt-stupid enough to cede THAT sort of power to a president.

The amending of Obamacare to include subsidies passed out like candy at Halloween was NOT done by congress…THAT was a unilateral decision made, when things got sticky…when the ‘subsidies ONLY through the STATE exchanges’ clause was discovered in the “You have to pass the bill to find out what’s in the bill” bill.

That was then…THIS is NOW and NOW means that the House AND the Senate are in the hands of Republicans…nutless for the most part but still in the hands of Republicans and unless the GOP wants to emulate General Custer…they will NOT grant the king permission to be the king on this one.

But that’s not the only problem Humpty Dumpty faces while perched on that precarious wall. There’s another earthquake rumbling.

Of the states that DID open a state exchange, and there are but 17 of them, almost half are sinking fast. They are suffering from low enrollment numbers and high costs and that is a shaky proposition for an egg on a wall.

The income that keeps the state’s exchanges afloat is derived from fees paid by insurers to be a part of socialismcare in the first place and those fees are determined by the number of sheep who sign up for the program. If the exchange is going to be financially viable, it requires large enrollment numbers and without them…uh-oh.

Some of the stumbling state exchanges are now considering their options which include raising the cost of the fees paid by the insurance companies to cover their losses but wait…what happens if they do THAT? Will the insurers simply take a hit like that? Of course not…insurers will hike the cost of premiums…raise the deductibles and jack up prescription costs to the consumer to cover THEIR losses and consumers who can’t afford any more than they’re paying now will then exit the system.

Another option of course would be for states to do what Oregon did and turn their suffering Obamacare exchanges over to the federal exchange but, if the Supreme Court holds with the Constitution like I believe they will…millions more will have their subsidies sent packing and millions more would then be without healthcare.

The real conundrum here is that many of those who will suddenly find themselves without coverage actually HAD coverage BEFORE Obamacare as Obamacare kicked 5.8 million people OFF the insurance they liked and wanted to keep. Now…the replacement for their old insurance is about to become so unaffordable they will be left with nothing at all and the only way to balance THAT crushing blow will be for Obamacare to jack up the rates even more…causing MORE to find it unaffordable and drop THEIR coverage.

It’s a death spiral to be sure.

Adding to the unsustainable need for other people’s money is the fact that the Obama-touted “new Obamacare enrollees” include 6.1 million people who have taken advantage of Obamacare’s expanded Medicaid program…that’s 6.1 million people, young enough and able bodied enough to work but without jobs. They are draining the pool of funds and as fewer and fewer are paying IN…there will be less and less to cover THOSE costs as well.

Medicaid has its own problems too in that because of Obamacare and its expanded Medicaid program…Medicaid is expected increase in enrollment by more than 27% by 2019…just 4 short years from now and Medicaid expenditures are projected to increase by 8.1% to 8.9% per year. As Medicaid is funded partly by federal taxpayer dollars and partly by the states themselves…as states go broke, so too will their Medicaid programs causing a strain on the entire system resulting  the law of diminishing returns to take hold there as well.

As the system is stretched to the breaking point…Medicaid will pay less and less to doctors causing more and more doctors to quit serving Medicaid patients resulting in less and less people getting treatment and longer and longer lines WAITING for treatment by the fewer and fewer doctors still providing those services.

The ball is in the hands of the Supreme Court and if they uphold the Constitutional requirement that only congress can alter a bill passed by congress…as any other ruling would indeed be unconstitutional…Obamacare will be gutted but even if they rule unconstitutionally, the death spiral OF Obamacare would only be slowed somewhat…not stopped as Obamacare, from end to end, is unsustainable.

Naturally liberals, who have invested in Obamacare by willingly shoving their collective heads up the king’s ass, were giddy over their mocking and ridicule but so too was the establishment wing of the congressional GOP when it came to Ted Cruz’s one man 21 hour crusade against Obamacare from the floor of the senate and much was made of Cruz’s reading of “Green Eggs and Ham” but none of that diminishes the fact that Cruz, and Conservatives at large have been spot on correct regarding Obamacare from the very beginning.

With a great deal of respect directed toward the gentleman from Texas, perhaps his recital of culinary prose was ill-conceived when a simple, paraphrased nursery rhyme would have sufficed.

Obamacare Dumpty sits on a wall,
Obamacare Dumpty is about to fall.
All the king’s horses and all the king’s minions
Can never put Obamacare together again.