From the Financial Times:
US Supreme Court upholds bulk of ‘ObamaCare’
The US Supreme Court has left Barack Obama’s healthcare law broadly intact
but ruled that an element of the law was not valid, handing the president a political victory.
In decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the majority of justices ruled that the individual mandate that compelled every American to buy insurance was not valid under the commerce clause of the Constitution. But they also ruled that the financial penalty outlined in the law against people who did not buy insurance was allowed. In effect, it means that the high court agreed with critics who said the mandate as written was unconstitutional, but that the implementation of the law will proceed much as it would have if the law had been completely upheld.
The mandate can now be enforced as a tax.
but ruled that an element of the law was not valid, handing the president a political victory.So the Mandate is unconstitutional, but it still may be applied with a different definition. This, of course, means Congress has to create the tax and the forthcoming conflict will be in this area.
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