Bleh, I am not pleased to see Obama appealing to "judicial activism". It's a stupid concept and will be easily taken advantage of by conservative pundits.
This whole thing could have been avoided if he and congress had the political fortitude to pass this thing the right way in the first place. If they had implemented the individual mandate as a tax instead of a fine (i.e., vote in a new tax for which you can receive a credit by purchasing health care) there would be no case against it. Functionally equivalent, but unquestionably within Congress's power. But of course, calling it a "tax" would have guaranteed it never got passed to begin with (despite being an identical end result).
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