It was a tortured ruling. One I could possibly have seen Kennedy making, but shocking coming from the John Roberts I have followed.
One thing it guarantees is that because the “tax” is so low, virtually no one will buy health insurance until they absolutely need it. This will drive insurance companies out of business and / or will force the Congress to raise the “tax” to keep the system from going bankrupt.
The problem is the Roberts gang said in their ruling that if the “tax” gets too high, then it is unconstitutional (although they were careful not to say how high was too high). This means it will face legal challenges repeatedly and will not be a workable system.
Obamacare will die quickly. The scary thought is what replaces it?
The leftists will push for single payer, and if they have succeeded in killing off private insurance in the interim, which I think is highly likely, then there may not be any other option.
In the end, medication or not, Roberts has screwed us all.
How about this being “one man’s vanity” ? Somehow Roberts got it into his tiny head that the court was being too political.....so he was going to reach across to the leftist-block & make peace. Of course he’s now a laughingstock on the left & hated on the right. The man has ruined himself & his country.
Yup, it was one of “our own” that did us in.
I wish the states would be in charge of it though....the feds have no business..
Rush said this, and I actually thought of this months ago, that if it gets to choosing who gets that extra radiation treatment or who gets the chemo or who gets the triple bypass at age 85, it might be left up to a politically placed panel, that will rule on whether or not you're a "party" member....ala communist Russia....
my husband and I are goners....