[DaveInDallas]

He basically sent it back to the House and said, ok. If you want this monstrosity to stand, go back and get it the legal way, via Congress’ unlimited ability to tax.

They did not say that. The law is not going back to the House to be rewritten as a tax. The Court said that the current law was within Congress' taxing power and so it is Constitutional.

[alamogal]

The current law allowed criminal sanctions for non-compliance. The SC disallowed this, and allowed sanctions as a tax only. It appears it WILL have to be re-written.

[untwist]

I agree that the ruling does not force this to be rewritten. The ruling took away Congress’ ability to use the Commerce Clause as a backdoor forced tax. If the Democrats had tried to pass this disaster the legal way as a tax, it never would have passed. How now to pay for it?

The House now has the ball. It is up to us to play this under the ‘legal’ process. We have the power to kill it. Will we?