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.
Yes, and like I said if the opposition to zerocare had any cajones, the entire fiasco that is zerocare could be stopped dead in its tracks.
But that would mean that rinos would have to vote to defund zerocare. Will never, ever, ever, happen.