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Sooooo, we have health care!!!!...well we did But now it's mandated. Right?

What's even more surprising is that Justice Roberts came over to the left side (I guess he was told we had cookies) and saved the Landmark healthcare Law. Roberts agreed that the requirement for nearly all Americans to secure insurance is permissible under the tax authority of Congress.
The Supreme Court's ruling was a close one. In this 5-4 decision on the most important political issue for 2 years, Justice Roberts compromise offered a very intense victory for the Obama administration and for democrats alike.
This "health care issue" has been on the table for almost a decade, well for the Democrats. There long and futile efforts have lead them nowhere in the fight for the sick, weak and poor. This decision keeps in place the largest new social program in a generation. This is a MAJIOR revamp of the American health care system that could extend coverage to around 30 million Americans. Also it creates state-run insurance exchanges and eliminates all of the most unpopular insurance practices.
This landmark ruling does, however limit one portion of the law. This was in part to extend Medicaid to cover more poor and disabled people. This is a cooperative federal and state effort exertion, that states quickly extend coverage to new individuals or lose federal payments.
Obama cheered (well not really) he praised the Justices stating that "this was a victory for people all over the country whose lives will be more secure"
At the center of this legislation is the mandate that Americans obtain health insurance by 2014.
This is a bitter and sad loss for the republicans and tea-party members, who had publically opposed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
For more information:
Read the whole decision:
http://www.mercurynews.com/health/ci_20962019/document-read-u-s-supreme-court-decision-health?source=pkg