Health Care BS

A lot of experts have said that Obamacare will be challenged in the Court, but this is the first time a sitting justice has suggested it. Breyer testified before a Congressional hearing and hinted that the Court’s case load would soon be getting heavier. He begins with a bon mot from Montaigne about a King who tried to reduce the number of lawyers by writing a lot of laws:

Doesn’t the king know every word in a bill is the subject for an argument in court in a decision?

Then he drops the following oblique but unmistakable reference to Obamacare, suggesting that its sheer length renders it fertile ground for challenges:

If you have passed a law with 2,400 pages it probably has a lot of words. And I would predict as a test of [Montaigne’s] theory that three or four years today no one is every going to ask us again why we have so few cases.

Here’s the video (via TPM):