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This will be the first step toward a single payer system where all citizens are covered by one government plan like medicare and can buy private supplemental insurance to cover expenses the general plan does not address. The current Act is bloated, overly expensive and wasteful. The system prior to the act was even worse. Perhaps people will start discussing solutions to problems now rather than pretending problems didn't exist or acting like nothing can ever be solved.
All the 'smaller government is better' people from the teaparty and wherever else just got spanked harder than they realize. Instead of working toward a meaningful evolution of US healthcare, they chose to roll the dice and let the Supreme Court evaluate what government can or can not do. The implications of the Roberts decision are MUCH wider than healthcare. Congress can now make 'required expenses' of just about anything it wants... and I am sure both sides of the aisle are salivating at that result. Pushing to amend the Act and reach a more reasonable result would have been a much better approach than digging in and demanding it be overturned or nothing.
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