Look for the ACA to become more popular as SCOTUS gives it their impramatur

[DemocratSinceBirth]

It enhances the legitimacy of the law in the eyes of the people.

[Takket]

1. also removes the worry of "why sign up when SCOTUS will take it away in a few months"?

[MohRokTah]

2. The teabaggers should be out of legal arguments.

I doubt there will ever be another case go to the SCOTUS now.

[unblock]

3. not sure what value this court's imprimatur has these days.

i think what enhances the aca's legitimacy in the eyes of the people is that its opponents have pretty much run out of desperate challenges to it.

plus, the politics of the aca now having million as its constituency, many in red states, makes it harder for republicans to rail against it. or at least, they'll be talking more about tweaking it and less about repealing it.

[merrily]

4. It's already held one part of it constitutional (mandate) while holding another part uncon-

stitutional (withholding all federal Medicaid funds from states that refuse to expand Medicaid), That decision did not seem to affect many opinions on the right. I personally thought the SCOTUS got it backwards, but I was happy for the people who got coverage.