This will be a huge boost for Obama's campaign. Now he can run on having successfully passed the Affordable Care Act. The government will probably enforce the mandate with a tax such as we pay for Medicare, but since the Tea Party is opposed to *any* tax, I don't know how this will play out. Romney is going to be a hoot to watch trying to turn himself into a pretzel condemning pretty much the same healthcare bill he signed into law in Massachusetts.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <raunchydog@...> wrote: > > The court upheld a core requirement known as the "individual mandate" that > Americans buy insurance or pay a fine. > Challengers said Congress could not force people to buy goods from private > companies. The government said health insurance was unlike any other product. > > Healthcare is a deeply polarising issue in the US and Republicans strongly > opposed Mr Obama's legislation. > > In addition to the individual mandate, the Supreme Court was asked consider > another part of the law that deals with the expansion of Medicaid, a > government healthcare programme for low-income citizens. > > The court ruled to limit that provision but did not strike it down altogether. > > The Chief Justice, John Roberts, who is seen as a conservative, voted in > favour of the healthcare law along with four liberal justices on the bench to > provide the deciding vote in the case. > > The Supreme Court is composed of nine justices, five are seen as conservative > justices and four as liberals. > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18630837 >
