“The hope that he will repeal obamacare!”
Ain’t gonna happen. He was the architect of Romney care in MA. He’s a car salesman telling you that *this* time he’ll get it right.
I really wonder about that now. If the Massachusetts mandate was structured as a tax, then it would be Constitutional under this ruling. It would be unconstitutional under a commerce clause expansion. But, I doubt there is an “interstate commerce clause” in the Massachusetts Constitution. So for the first time, there likely is a distinction to be made between Obozocare and Romneycare. One was structured and passed as a tax; the other one was snuck through under the lie it was not a tax. “Taxation with misrepresentation.” If I were Romney, I would now challenge opponents of Romneycare to initiate a court challenge to it (he ain’t winning Massachusetts anyway.)