bill: bya, because you asked this morning, maggie out of houston writes the following, if the supreme court kicks out the mandate does that stop president obama s free contraception? doug holtz-eaken, president of the american action forum was in court for all three days of arguments last week and with us now. doug, good morning to you. by hill. bill: the viewer s question, it has to be tweaked a little because it deals with the executive order that came out of the white house. what happens if the mandate is out? well, there are a couple of scenarios. the courts spent a lot of wednesday talking about severability. if the individual mandate goes, what else goes with it. one possibility is it s only the mandate in which case the remainder of the law stands and the president s executive order stands. another possibility, what the government wanted to have happen is the mandate goes along with other insurance reforms, but that would leave in place the so called essential benefits in th