Two senior Democrats, who spoke with the AP on conditions of anonymity to keep in line with the administration’s public stance, said the surviving parts of the law would move forward.
“Legislatively we can’t do a thing, and we are going to move full speed ahead (with implementation),” one of the Democratic officials said in the report.
If the Supreme Court decides to strike down only the health insurance mandate but keep the rest of the PPACA, that leaves in place a Medicaid expansion that could insure an additional 14 million Americans, according to a Congressional Budget Office estimate.
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