Obamacare ruling could reduce hospital profits

Published April 4, 2012 4:00am ET



The Left is planning all sorts of freakouts — including impeachment trials for justices — if the Supreme Court rules that not buying health insurance doesn’t count as interstate commerce. I promise you that some of these post-ruling attacks will describe conservative justices as caving to industry.

But as I noted when the arguments started, industry tilts in favor of the administration in this case. And Jeff Young at the Huffington Post flagged a Moody’s report on how hospital profits will be crimped if the court rules against the administration.