If the healthcare law is overturned, universal healthcare is dead forever

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If the Supreme Court does overturn healthcare reform, Democrats and liberals might as well close the book on efforts to ever get universal healthcare.  The reason is that Republicans have drawn themselves a near lock on control of the House and Democrats are not likely to get 60 Senate seats again anytime soon.  Think a Republican Congress is ever going to pass universal healthcare?  Forget about it.  This is do or die for Democrats. 

The PPACA isn't universal healthcare anyway, so I don't see how this is relevant.

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It should be noted that the individual mandate is the only method for getting anything near universal health care that has ever come anywhere close to political acceptability or having been pushed in both parties. The only alternative is directly government funded health care, so it would take a dramatic shift to the left by the GOP to make that possible.

I think the essentialness of the individual mandate to this type of system is overblown - at least so long as employer based plans remain the norm.