Article I of the Constitution of the United States limits Federal Power.  ObamaCare tramples these limits by mandating that all of us must buy federally approved insurance or face a tax penalty of $750 or 2% of our income, whichever is greater.  Proponents of the president's plan say that this coercion is allowed under the Commerce Clause, which allows regulation of commerce, arguing that this is not a requirement but a regulation of commerce, which in itself is an unexplainable leap of logic.  Further, they argue that the tax penalty is only that, a tax, and therefore expressly allowed by the Constitution.  Opponents say that is nonsense; this plan is essentially a form of conscription - which is totally illegal under the Constitution, except for the specifically enumerated power for Congress to declare a draft into the military. They say that is the only exception and this so-called tax is just another form of coercion.

Supporters of ObamaCare argue that the lawsuits filed by opponents are wrong-headed and silly. They argue that they won, the opponents lost, so just shut up already.  They say the lawsuits are in fact, political grandstanding and frivolous.

The thing is - they're not.  This is deadly serious stuff my friends.  The opponents are right and it is no foregone conclusion that the lawsuits now being filed by the states are going to lose.  They might win and that is the real reason that ObamaCare backers are worried.  If these suits prevail, then national healthcare might really be dead.  We can only hope so.

Great institutions always look like they are too big to fail until they do and they are brought down by what I call "mopery", meaning essentially that inertia and laziness coupled with hubris lead to their ultimate demise.  Wall Street brought itself down in the mortgage meltdown, the Catholic Church is doing its own version of self-destruction brought on by huge institutional resistance to the fact that they have been sheltering and protecting pedophiles globally for probably centuries until they had to deal with a free western press, and the very existence of the United States itself is in jeopardy brought on by well meaning people trampling their own liberties with coercive rules spending trillions of fictional dollars that they have no way of really earning.

It makes me sick to watch.  I'm rooting for the courts to be the last bastion of resistance to our self-destruction.  Go Justice Roberts!