I thought that they were just waiting on this ruling to see how they would proceed. They were hoping the court would undo Obamacare so they wouldn’t have to.
Let’s see if the Republicans now overturn the complete package as they promised to during election time.
Don't hold your breath.
If the Republican Party were serious about repealing Obamacare, they'd have taken it up their first day in the current Congressional Session and passed the repeal.
They would've then sent it up to Obama who of course, would repeal it.
Now, what would this have demonstrated? It would've sent a CLEAR message to the American People, who voted in Republicans in mass numbers to build their lead in the house AND to take over the Senate that they were serious about repealing Obamacare, and could be trusted on this issue.
But that's not what they did. Instead, the Republican Party spit in our faces and went along with Obama to pass TPP.
The message of the last election by the electorate was to STOP OBAMA. Not only have the Republican's failed on every level to do that, the dumb bastards actually gave Obama more power.
Anyone who thinks what happened today is a "good thing" for us come 2016 is just flat out batshit crazy.
I think the opposite is true. While the rhetoric is nominally against federal control of health care, the majority of Congress is for something resembling the ACA. If SCOTUS had upheld the law as written, the GOP would have been in the position of having to pass some sort of "fix" that maintained the status quo established by the IRS. At that point, the GOP would have owned the ACA, and the last thing anybody in Congress wants, it is ownership of a bill that is unpopular with its brand of voter.
Today's ruling gets GOP off the hook - they can complain about the ACA, and offer excuses why they are powerless to undo it.