Stop perpetrating this lie and fraud on this forum. No, it wasn't and that is precisely why Obama's Government Lawyers argued that it was not a "tax" rather they were fines and penalties to be imposed and collected by the IRS.
Now if you want to argue "a tax by any other name is still a tax" that argument would have merit but the fact remains it didn't, and Roberts re-wrote the law in order to justify it as Constitutional.
That is a clear over-stepping of the USSC's Constitutional Mandate, as I outlined previously in this thread.
Stop falling for the liberal lamestream media bullshit.
The high court’s ruling leaves in place 21 tax increases in the health care law costing more than $675 billion over the next 10 years, according to the House Ways and Means Committee. Of those, 12 tax hikes would affect families earning less than $250,000 per year, the panel said, including a “Cadillac tax” on high-cost insurance plans, a tax on insurance providers and an excise tax on medical-device manufacturers.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/28/republicans-ruling-focuses-election-obamas-health-/