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BY CHRISTINA HARTMAN

Expect to hear a lot of buzz over the next week about President Obama’s health care law. A Supreme Court ruling over its constitutionality could come any day now. In fact, some court-watchers say the smart money’s on Thursday.

Fox Business : “The Supreme Court is set to release the ruling imminently.”

WRGB : “Decisions usually come down on Monday and Thursday mornings, so tomorrow could be the big day.”

The high court ends its current term next Thursday, which is why anticipation is running so high. On Monday of this week, anticipating an announcement, TV cameras surrounded the court, which could either throw out the entire law, or just parts of it. But even without a ruling yet, political pundits are busy trying to dissect what a ruling would mean for the president.

MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell : “What can the president do politically, because if this is knocked out, doesn’t it make him look as though he has wasted time?”

Fox Business : “If they do overturn it after today's fed news this could really kick Obama when he is down.”

But in a guest post for Forbes , Drs. Bob Kocher and Mohit Kaushal say that sort of debate misses the point, arguing the high court’s decision doesn’t really, really matter because...

“The major forces behind the changes in our health care system—rising costs, an older, sicker population and technological innovation—show no signs of abating and do not depend on Federal legislation.”

An Associated Press poll finds if the Supreme Court does strike down the law, more than 75% don’t want that to be the end of health care overhaul, with respondents saying they’d want the president and lawmakers to take up a new effort.