The USSC decision of declaring zerocare a tax gave us citizens a tiny sliver of a chance of escaping it IF we had a strong enough resistance in one of the branches of government... so far, the House has tried to disassemble (defund) zerocare 38 times and counting, to no avail.
Personally, I think it’s the eotwawki and it doesn’t matter what the House tries to do to get rid of this monstrosity.
God help us.
You may not have seen two excerpts from the Gibbons v. Ogden opinion which should have killed Obamacare imo. Gibbons had clarified not only that the states have never delegated to Congress the specific power to regulate public healthcare, healthcare a state power issue, but also that Congress is prohibited from laying taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially powers which Congress cannot justify under the Constitution's Section 8 of Article I.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress (emphasis added)." --Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.So Chief Justice Roberts' calling Obamacare a tax actually went againt case precedent imo."Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." --Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.