John Roberts Didn't Save ObamaCare

Imagine a football game. Perhaps tonight's Patriots game. One second left in the game, Patriots down by five but the ball on the opponents one. Brady keeps the ball on a quarterback sneak and jumps over the pile. A mass of bodies meet and the all eyes move to the referee, will it be called a touchdown or will they rule the defense held. No one knows. Now imagine that the referee rules in your favor, you celebrate and all is well. Until...the next morning you wake and find out that this was not the case. Things were not as they seemed.

This is what John Roberts did to Barack Obama's Healthcare Law. George Will, who I do not often agree with, wrote a brilliant column this week that unveiled how the President's victory holds in the keys to defeat.

Here is what Will tells us. It should be noted that Will himself bases his article on the work of respected Missouri professor who has written on the subject. He supposes that whereas Justice Roberts saved the Presidents bill by declaring the mandate not mandate but a tax he sealed it's destruction.

The thinking goes like this. The purpose of the mandate originally was to make sure that young and healthy people were forced to buy health insurance. Without this provision the only people insured would be the elderly and those already sick. This is because the healthcare law also insists that people not be penalized for having a preexisting condition when gaining insurance. Without the penalty a young, or old, for that matter, can wait to get insurance until he gets sick because there is no monetary penalty for waiting, he will not pay higher rates.

Justice Roberts however ruled that the mandate was not a mandate but a tax. In this way those people who do choose not to purchase health insurance will be forced to pay a tax for not doing so. However Roberts set a precedent by saying a tax can only work if it is not such a large amount of money that an average person can't pay it. In fact Roberts stated that if the tax did become a higher amount, an amount enough to make sure that people would buy insurance, it would no longer be a tax it would be a mandate,and thus, veer into unconstitutionally.

So where does this leave us. It means that folks who do not wish to buy insurance can save money by paying a minimal yearly " tax" of an estimated sixty dollars. This is, of course , much less expensive than purchasing insurance which means that eventually premiums will have to rise to cover the clients that do buy insurance, the old and the sick.

John Roberts gave Obama a true Judas kiss.

Another reason that the only healthcare reform that will work is a single payer system run by the government.