Obama Health-Care Overhaul Upheld By U.S. Supreme Court

This is relevant to HN because healthcare costs affect all businesses, including startups. This ruling removes a lot of uncertainty.<p>The best coverage is here: <a href="http://www.scotusblog.com/cover-it-live/" rel="nofollow">http://www.scotusblog.com/cover-it-live/</a>

From CNN's live blog [1]:<p><pre><code> Chief Justice John Roberts had noted that however that the mandate would have been struck down based on the commerce clause , saying it would "open a new and vast domain" for Congressional power. ... Chief Justice John Roberts issued a long opinion in which he said the controversial individual mandate may be upheld and is within Congress’ power under the taxing clause rather than the commerce clause. </code></pre> This helped me understand their decision. I'm still not sure what to make of the decision, personally.<p>[1] <a href="http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/28/how-will-supreme-court-rule-on-health-care-law/?hpt=hp_t1" rel="nofollow">http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/28/how-will-supreme-court-...</a>

The part that was struck was requiring states to comply with new eligibility requirements for Medicaid or risk losing their funding. The states can decide not to comply with the new requirements and still get their original funding.<p>this is a pretty good link for coverage and understanding: <a href="http://www.scotusblog.com/cover-it-live/" rel="nofollow">http://www.scotusblog.com/cover-it-live/</a>

link to decision [pdf]: <a href="http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/11-393c3a2.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/11-393c3a2.pdf</a>

Why isn't this making it onto the front page?