re: Can someone please explain the recent Obamacare ruling?

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When ACA was first being debated in court it was upheld as constitutional because the individual mandate was considered a tax

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No, the individual mandate was ruled constitutional because of the tax. The entirety of Obamacare doesn’t depend on the individual mandate being constitutional. E.g. one of the biggest parts of Obamacare is Medicare expansion. The power of Congress to spend money is expressly laid out in the Constitution - it has nothing to do with the individual mandate.

This ruling will be overturned on appeal and probably it won’t even be heard by the Supreme Court. It’s a really, really bad decision.