If the provision written in PLAIN LANGUAGE in the bill were not meant to be part of the intent of the bill, why was it not openly debated and reviewed PRIOR to passage?
Act in haste, repent at leisure. Surely this gem of wisdom has surfaced before, in the history of mankind?
This will go to the USSC where not that long ago a penalty was declared to be a tax in a 5-4 decision. If not for this, I might be more optimistic.
John Roberts will have no compunction about divining a “you know what we meant” penumbra from the turbid text of the ACA.
The law is a cluster-f**k that none of those geniuses on the hill even bothered to read (who wrote it I wonder? How long was it sitting in Nacy Pelosi’s desk? ‘We have to pass it to see what’s in it’...). Now it bites them in the ass. I love it!
Actually the law was written by the Roman Senate, not the US Congress. And the Emperor of New Rome, Emperor Zero, is rewriting the law on the fly.