The latest Bloombeg Businessweek explores the possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court could kill ObamaCare’s individual mandate, while leaving the rest of the 2010 federal health care reform law intact:

The Obama Administration says if the mandate is struck down, much of the law—including Medicaid provisions and requirements that employers offer insurance—could still function and should remain intact. But Administration officials, along with insurance companies, insist that removing the mandate would undermine other provisions, including a requirement that insurers issue a policy to anyone who applies and a ban on higher premiums for people with preexisting conditions. Without the premiums of healthy people, insurers would raise their prices as more high-cost patients enrolled, driving away low-cost policyholders. “Decoupling the mandate from those other requirements would destabilize the insurance market throughout the nation,” the industry’s trade group argues in court papers. The Administration says the mandate can’t be severed from the other insurance provisions: If one falls, the others must, too.

As Daren Bakst told Carolina Journal Radio/CarolinaJournal.tv recently, the high court’s decision could hinge upon the Constitution’s Commerce Clause.