Supreme Court and the Individual Health Insurance Mandate

[Brittain33]

A win is a win

But now the GOP will argue that Obamacare is a "secret tax" and that Obama lied when he said it wasn't a tax, but now it is officially a tax.

This. 

Still, it is better politically than it being found totally unconstitutional.

A tax that his opponent supported. Before he opposed it.

A tax that will only be paid by people who a) don't have insurance now, b) don't want to buy insurance, and c) have a relatively high income that takes them out of subsidy range.

[Brittain33]

This is bad, as it's the first step towards Universal Single Payer healthcare as in Britain. So enjoy all the corruption, waste, inefficiency, bureaucracy, incompetence and high taxes that it is accompanied by.

NHS has got its issues, but it costs about half as much as U.S. healthcare. Whatever waste and inefficiency Brits experience are dwarfed by what we have in the U.S. without universal coverage. We have an extensive bureaucracy but it's private.