[TChad]

Since it is now construed as a tax, couldn't it be brought up under a budget bill immune from the filibuster?

Yes, that is one of the "silver linings" described in this blog piece:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/philosophicalfragments/2012/06/28/five-possible-silver-linings-in-the-obamacare-decisio/

Just 51 votes in the Senate can put Obamacare on hold for ten years.

I wonder if Roberts considered that.

[Stingray]

From your link:

“Congress cannot compel you to purchase insurance; it can only compel you to pay a non-extreme, non-coercive tax if you wish not to purchase insurance.”

But here’s the problem: if congress cannot compel you to purchase insurance, how can they compel you to pay a tax for refusing to purchase insurance???

Isn’t the latter a form of compulsion???????

This ruling is utterly ridiculous!