# Obamacare mandate upheld
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamacare-mandate-upheld/626579
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 28, 2012, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamacare-mandate-upheld/626579 "2012-06-28T14:08:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2012, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamacare-mandate-upheld/626579/1 "2012-06-28T14:08:29Z")
First!
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2012, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamacare-mandate-upheld/626579/2 "2012-06-28T14:14:23Z")
Next time, bring accurate content.
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### Author:  [@diku](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diku)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2012, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamacare-mandate-upheld/626579/3 "2012-06-28T14:20:45Z")
Nope, it’s accurate. Now CNN is running a correction.
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### Author:  [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2012, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamacare-mandate-upheld/626579/4 "2012-06-28T14:22:00Z")
I think he means “Bring some actual content, not just a cry of First!”
That sort of YouTube juvenile bullshit isn’t how this board works.
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### Author:  [@diku](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diku)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2012, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamacare-mandate-upheld/626579/5 "2012-06-28T14:25:39Z")
Fair enough.
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### Author:  [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2012, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamacare-mandate-upheld/626579/6 "2012-06-28T14:26:47Z")
Not to mention you’re not even [first](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=656673).
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2012, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamacare-mandate-upheld/626579/7 "2012-06-28T14:32:56Z")
> [@mhendo](#):
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> I think he means “Bring some actual content, not just a cry of First!”
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> That sort of YouTube juvenile bullshit isn’t how this board works.
Actually, I thought he meant the individual mandate, not the whole thing.
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2012, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamacare-mandate-upheld/626579/8 "2012-06-28T14:35:28Z")
Very oncomplete story, with no real analysis if the details of the decision, [here](http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/06/Supreme-Court-rules-on-Obama-health-care-plan-718037/1#.T-xqjrVrPg8).
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2012, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamacare-mandate-upheld/626579/9 "2012-06-28T14:39:04Z")
Damn! Beaten to it.
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### Author:  [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2012, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamacare-mandate-upheld/626579/10 "2012-06-28T14:48:10Z")
Despite what the commentators on NPR were saying about the “is it a tax?” question (they indicated it was unlikely it would be ruled a tax based on oral arguments), I figured that’s what would happen. Even the solicitor general slipped a few times and called the penalty a tax.
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2012, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamacare-mandate-upheld/626579/11 "2012-06-28T14:48:24Z")
> [@Confused dart cum](#):
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> First!
You’re new here, so apparently you’re still figuring things out. We want actual content in posts. Don’t do this again.
**twickster** , MPSIMS moderator
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### Author:  [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2012, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamacare-mandate-upheld/626579/12 "2012-06-28T14:56:15Z")
> [@diku](#):
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> Nope, it’s accurate. Now CNN is running a correction.
Damn, CNN, just keep digging your own grave, why don’t ya’?
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### Author:  [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2012, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamacare-mandate-upheld/626579/13 "2012-06-28T14:56:52Z")
Here’s the [ruling](http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/11-393c3a2.pdf).
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### Author:  [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2012, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamacare-mandate-upheld/626579/14 "2012-06-28T15:02:44Z")
> [@overlyverbose](#):
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> Here’s the [ruling](http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/11-393c3a2.pdf).
Warning: pdf
[Here’s the Google Docs Viewer link](http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.supremecourt.gov%2Fopinions%2F11pdf%2F11-393c3a2.pdf).
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### Author:  [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2012, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamacare-mandate-upheld/626579/15 "2012-06-28T15:10:34Z")
Can some legislature-oriented person explain the court’s rationale in layman’s terms?
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2012, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamacare-mandate-upheld/626579/16 "2012-06-28T15:12:59Z")
This is a fantastic victory over the forces of darkness. Or is that dorkness? Either way, I hope Romney chokes so hard on it that he has to be rushed to the emergency room and have his life saved by Obamacare.
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### Author:  [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2012, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamacare-mandate-upheld/626579/17 "2012-06-28T15:15:59Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#):
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> Either way, I hope Romney chokes so hard on it that he has to be rushed to the emergency room and have his life saved by Obamacare.
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Damn you, Obamacare!
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### Author:  [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2012, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamacare-mandate-upheld/626579/18 "2012-06-28T15:22:51Z")
> [@mhendo](#):
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> I think he means “Bring some actual content, not just a cry of First!”
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> That sort of YouTube juvenile bullshit isn’t how this board works.
I thought maybe he meant that it was a first for a decision of this Supreme Court to actually go the way the Democrats wanted - in which case it was quite clever.
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### Author:  [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2012, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamacare-mandate-upheld/626579/19 "2012-06-28T15:40:04Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#):
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> Can some legislature-oriented person explain the court’s rationale in layman’s terms?
Yes, please. Legalese-to-English translation desperately desired.
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### Author:  [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2012, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamacare-mandate-upheld/626579/20 "2012-06-28T15:59:14Z")
> [@mhendo](#):
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> I think he means “Bring some actual content, not just a cry of First!”
>
> That sort of YouTube juvenile bullshit isn’t how this board works.
+1
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