Originally Posted by Malorn
If the law was honestly revealed to the country as a tax at the time of its passing, it would have never been passed. The President is a fraud and a liar.
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He's a fraud and a liar for not following through on many of his big campaign promises, one of which was to provide meaningful health care reform. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act does some good stuff, making it harder for insurance companies to deny people coverage and so on, but it still leaves you with the most inefficient health care system in the industrialized world. So he was a liar before and he's I guess more of a liar now, but ironically I guess the lies people who might have voted for Obama care about are ones Romney voters were happy with anyway (keeping Guantanamo open, staying in Afghanistan, etc.)
The funny thing is that the best outcome probably was for it to be nixed. With the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act hanging around, it'll be tough for future Presidents to get the US off the terrible free market health care system it's on and bring it over to a far superior single payer health care system like every nation with any sense has.
e: As for the impact this'll have on the election, the bizarre hyperbole of "OMG HUGE TAXES AND SOCIALISM!" is pretty silly. The Act existed before this ruling. If it got repealed the GOP machine would have spun it as the inept President trying to impose his Nazi Muslim Socialist Kenyan views on God-fearing Real American Patriots. Now that it's been supported, the GOP will spin it as the inept President actually imposing his Nazi Muslim Socialist Kenyan views on God-fearing Real American Patriots.