High court upholds Obamacare health insurance mandate ...

In direct contrast to what was happening outside the courthouse, where media outlets were rushing to report the court?s decision regarding Obama?s health insurance mandate, the crowd inside the courthouse waited on tenterhooks, completely silent as Chief Justice John Roberts read the court?s decision.

Roberts did not make the winning side immediately clear when reading, so for an intense moment, both sides thought they had won.? Solicitor General Donald Verilli Jr., who has been largely criticized for his argument representing the government?s case, sat quietly and showed no emotion as the verdict was read.? After the chief justice finished explaining the courts had decided to uphold the requirement for individual insurance, everyone seemed to exhale at once.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, who was expected to be the swing vote upon which the eventual verdict would rest, ended up on the losing side and was visibly angry while reading his dissent, calling the majority vote a ?vast judicial overreaching?.

During the case, a broccoli analogy had been used by Justice Antonin Scalia, expressing that if people can be forced by the government to buy insurance, it can force them to buy anything; for example, broccoli.? This got laughs when it was referred to by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but she eventually made clear that she understood the argument being made, but disagreed with the implications because health care is not like vegetables; it is something that everyone will eventually need, some sooner and some later but it is impossible to tell when or how serious the need will be.

Source: http://massnewsmedia.com/news/7992/high-court-upholds-obamacare-health-insurance-mandate/

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