The Supreme Court voted 6-3 to uphold Obamacare, not as written, but as interpreted by the Obama adminstration, i.e. it stays in place, as it has been, probably forever.
In one way, it's letting the work of Congress stand. If Congress could muster the votes, it could fix Obamacare in any one of a bunch of ways. Today's Supreme Court decision says that Congress must do the heavy lifting, the Court isn't gonna get into it for them. Congress is deadlocked on the issue, neither side has the votes to do what it wants to do.
We are probably doomed to live with Obama care for ever. Enough people get benefits from it, and it is so ideologically appealing to lefties, that I cannot visualize a future Congress changing it, much, if at all. Obamacare is a heavy drag on the economy. It makes employers reluctant to hire, because the health care costs are so steep. It is a cost enhancer, and one big reason that we are still stuck in Great Depression 2.0. We may remain stuck there forever.
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