Justice Roberts simply did not read the bill or just pretends that the text of the bill is irrelevant. This is how the Bill will actually be administered in practice. It is so large, sweeping and convoluted, that any public official will cite it at the reason for doing X,Y& Z whether the bill says it or not.
The Bill (Section 1501 individual responsibility,) makes a specific and detailed appeal to the commerce clause for its legitimacy. Will these findings be struck from the bill? It is IMPOSSIBLE to find that these findings are illegitimate, and yet that the bill is constitutional:
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following findings:
(1) IN GENERAL.—The individual responsibility requirement
provided for in this section (in this subsection referred to
as the ‘‘requirement’’) is commercial and economic in nature,
and substantially affects interstate commerce, as a result of
the effects described in paragraph (2).
(2) EFFECTS ON THE NATIONAL ECONOMY AND INTERSTATE
COMMERCE.—øReplaced by section 10106(a)¿ The effects described
in this paragraph are the following:
(A) The requirement regulates activity that is commercial
and economic in nature: economic and financial decisions
about how and when health care is paid for, and
when health insurance is purchased. In the absence of the
requirement, some individuals would make an economic
and financial decision to forego health insurance coverage
and attempt to self-insure, which increases financial risks
to households and medical providers.
But... the Court today, well, yesterday, EXPRESSLY AND VERY EXPLICITLY DENIED THAT POWER TO CONGRESS.
No matter what, this POS gotta go back to Congress before it can be enforced in any way.
That’s why I keep saying this is being spun as a win, but he basically lost his donkey...