Reason Magazine: Nick Gillespie & Peter Suderman: 'Is There a Silver Lining to the Supreme Court's Obamacare Decision?'

Source:Reason Magazine- 9 of the most powerful people in the United States.

"In a 5-to-4 decision, the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act by ruling that the individual mandate is legal under Congress' power of taxation, while giving states more flexibility in deciding whether to participate in the law's Medicaid expansion.

What does today's decision mean for the implementation of the law and the political effort to repeal it?

Nick Gillespie sat down with Reason Magazine Senior Editor Peter Suderman to discuss today's ruling and its implications for health care policy." 

From Reason Magazine

For political reasons, Democrats, especially Congressional Democrats and President Barack Obama didn't call the individual health insurance mandate a tax, because they didn't want to get accused by Congressional Republicans and their candidates during the 2010 Congressional mid-terms of raising taxes on middle class Americans. So they were lying. And I'm saying this as a Democrat who supports the Affordable Care Act. 

Libertarians and 10th Amendment supporters in general should like the Supreme Court's ruling on the Medicaid expansion, because it says that the states have a choice whether to expand their Medicaid coverage or not. But Uncle Sammy can't force them to do that. 

I support the Supreme Court's ruling on the Affordable Care Act for two reasons: 

It's constitutional, which should be the most important. Whether you like what government does or no, everything that they does should have to be constitutional which guarantees limited government in America, even at the Federal level. 

And I like the law because it expands affordable health insurance to Americans who simply can't afford health insurance on their own, even if their employer offers insurance to them. As well as the ACA regulates the private insurance industry in America, while leaving it in place. 

So I don''t have any issues with SCOTU's ruling on the ACA.