Which is to say, a "New Left" law that does little for anyone who actually needs help but allows its authors to SAY they did something if no one bothers to look too closely, while the various corporate interests who ACTUALLY benefit look on and smile. Seriously, has the number of people who actually got healthcare they otherwise would not have topped 2000 yet? Out of 300,000,000? When we are spending $1,000,000,000,000 in taxpayer money--plus whatever the price tag is for those mandated to buy insurance they cannot afford but ineligible for a subsidy to cover it all? You may lose your pool simply because insurance lobby money has no influence over the SCOTUS.

The real question is how many similar tax penalties will go to the courts if the SCOTUS DOES overturn the law on that basis though doing so would essentialy require them to establish it as a direct tax, which seems difficult to do, or simply admit that they are overturning a law passed by Congress and signed by the President simply because they dislike it. Since at times some have shown difficulty in comprehending plain English, they either have to establish the tax penalty for not buying insurance is a direct tax, uphold the law, or legislate from the bench (i.e. judicial activism). The smart money is on them doing the latter but denying it.