I Didn't See That One Coming...

I am still on the fence when it comes to the Affordable Healthcare Act. It doesn't particularly matter to me since I work for the government and health insurance is one of my benefits. I do feel for friends that are not so lucky though, and I also recognize that the U.S. was one of the few wealthy countries in the world that did not have a universal healthcare law. Regardless, I assumed that that either the law as a whole would be struck down by the Supreme Court, or that at the very latest, they would strike down the individual mandate because of the make-up of this particular court. Color me surprised when I saw the ruling this morning that not only did the Supreme Court uphold the law as a whole, but Chief Justice Roberts was the deciding opinion, not Justice Kennedy. Whoa. Part of me wished part of the law had been struck down to galvanize the left. Instead, I'm slightly concerned that the ruling will rile up the crazy tea partiers. Just what we need, more crazy people who think of solely of themselves and their religion and have no desire to compromise on anything in Congress, where they already can't get anything done. This is certainly going to be a nasty, nasty, nasty election. Sigh.