Roberts, Obamacare, and Consequences

“This bill [Affordable Care Act] was written in a tortured way to make sure the C.B.O. did not score the mandate as taxes. If C.B.O. scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies.”—Jonathan Gruber

Shockingly, political considerations were in play in the passage of the Affordable Care Act. This was not particularly hard to see at the time. But Jonathan Gruber, he of the stupid American voter and architect of Obamacare, has exploded any remaining pretense.

One man in particular should be paying attention.

In his opinion upholding the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate, Chief Justice John Roberts noted that it’s not the Court’s “job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.”

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