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Thank you for referencing that article right-wing agnostic. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

”… a challenge to the legality of an IRS rule authorizing tax credits for the purchase of health insurance in federally established exchanges."

FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

Legal technicalities concerning ~~Obamacare~~ Democratcare aside, regardless what activist justices want everybody to think about the constitutionality of Democratcare, let’s not overlook that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for intrastate healthcare purposes. This is evidenced by the following excerpts from Supreme Court opinions.

”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. [emphases added]” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“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.
“Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description [emphasis added], as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass.” —Justice Barbour, New York v. Miln., 1837.
“Direct control of medical practice in the states is obviously [emphasis added] beyond the power of Congress.” –Linder v. United States, 1925.

In fact, constitutional experts have historically noted that the states entrusted themselves, not the federal government, with the care of the people.

“Our citizens have wisely formed themselves into one nation as to others and several States as among themselves. To the united nation belong our external and mutual relations; to each State, severally, the care of our persons [emphasis added], our property, our reputation and religious freedom.” —Thomas Jefferson: To Rhode Island Assembly, 1801.
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
”7. Sovereignty, for the protection of the rights of life and personal liberty within the respective States, rests alone with the States [emphases added].” —United States v. Cruikshank, 1875.