Dale Berman doesn’t just have a rooting interest in the Supreme Court upholding the health care reform law. You could say his life depends on it. He is a 54-year-old freelance photographer from Burbank, Calif. who has had Crohn’s disease his entire life, causing intense pain and a variety of complications. He’s watched as his insurance costs have steadily increased over the years, forcing him to seek refuge in government programs for “high-risk” patients who are unable to receive affordable coverage from private-sector insurers. He is now in California’s federally funded Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan, created by the health care reform law as a temporary refuge for people like himself. If the Supreme Court rulings cancel out the new Affordable Care Act and subsequently his federally funded insurance plan, people like Berman could then find themselves at Square one, left to fend for themselves, according to a story in the Bellingham Herald,