I agree that the ruling does not force this to be rewritten. The ruling took away Congress’ ability to use the Commerce Clause as a backdoor forced tax. If the Democrats had tried to pass this disaster the legal way as a tax, it never would have passed. How now to pay for it?
The House now has the ball. It is up to us to play this under the ‘legal’ process. We have the power to kill it. Will we?
In reality though, the chances of killing it via tax reform are no better than killing it by repeal. Without the Senate and the Presidency, it won’t happen. That’s the short term. Long term, after the dust has settled, it can be worked into a bill of some sort, but we all know that, like Social Security, this will never go away once it become entrenched. Even Republicans will stop harping on it once everyone accepts it and moves on. So what little good news there is, dies with a loss in November.