1. When we first drafted this review, we titled it "Justice Roberts saves the Health Insurance Industry." Roberts is a well-known "company man" and it seemed obvious to us that the motivation behind his ruling was throw a life-line to companies that will drown in a sea of red ink without Obamacare.
The fact is that the health delivery system in the United States needs the life support mechanism of Obamacare. The injection of profit incentives into the veins of health care is sheer poison. Insurers cannot afford the costs and people cannot afford the insurance. Obamacare seeks an antidote by mean of a counter injection of mandated premium purchases. This is only a short term solution; but the short term is good enough for company men.
But the problem highlighted in this essay is that nothing the court's opinion states what the justices are actually thinking. One can conjecture, psychoanalyze and prognosticate howsoever one can, but the opinion itself is a heap o' words signifying nothing.
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