Consequences of the Obamacare ruling in the short, medium, and long term
The fact that the nation is stuck with Obamacare is the least problem with the Supreme Court's ruling today, because health care is -- thankfully -- still not a Constitutional right, and the law can be reversed. The best thing that is likely to come out of the ruling is a Republican-controlled White House and Congress, which will have a mandate to repeal Obamacare as their first order of business. I was hoping for a different ruling (more on that in a moment), but I can't deny that today's ruling is probably the best boost a Republican campaign could have. (It's probably pretty obvious that the reason for this is that Republicans are more likely to be fired up during this election. For a more detailed discussion of the phenomenon of voting, see Satoshi Kanazawa's articles here , here , and here . In brief: people don't like to lose. If that effect carries over from one presidential election to another, over four years, it seems likely to have an even lar