In June, the Supreme Court may declare the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 completely unconstitutional. It seems likely to decide that the “individual mandate,” the part of the law that requires all Americans to purchase health insurance, cannot stand.

Advocates of liberty, however, risk rejoicing prematurely. They should not rest until America’s health care system has been returned to its rightful owners — patients and their doctors, freely interacting in markets protected only by the government’s promise to enforce consensual contracts. A strike-down of the health care law is only the first of many steps necessary to reprivatize health care and create a better, less expensive and more personalized system for Americans.