joining us now to discuss a rap of all those arguments georgetown university law professor paul rothstein. paul, let's lay out can they leave part of the law and take out the individual mandate which many people consider the core? >> yes. that's right. the liberals on the court, the extreme liberals, said leave everything else alone. just take out the individual mandate that requires people to buy insurance. leave everything else in. the extreme conservatives on the court said well, no. strike everything down completely if you strike down the i have mandate, but there's -- the individual mandate, but there's an in between position which some of them aired which was some of the provisions do have a lot to do with the individual mandate. that's how they're funded like getting rid of preexisting conditions. got to have the money come from somewhere, but some of the provisions of this law, it's a very big, 1,700 pages, it's got a lot of things, got something in there trying to encourage doctors to go to underserved areas, subsidies to small business for offering health insurance. those may ha