I never noticed until today just how handsome that robe makes you look, Chief Justice Roberts.
- I’ve been tough on Chief Justice Roberts, but I have to admit it took a lot of guts for a conservative jurist to uphold the Affordable Care Act. Of course, if I was opposed to health-care reform, I might not think “guts” is what he’s full of.
- Pretty much instantly, a non-politician in Roberts becomes the most interesting political figure in America. At least for awhile.
- I know health-care reform will be an election-year issue and could possibly be overturned should Mitt Romney become President, but I think going forward the bigger argument will be how do we become more efficient and reduce the costs for all of us.
- As commendable as saving the auto industry, dismantling Al-Qaeda and other achievements have been, nothing else President Obama has done will have as profoundly a good effect on the lives of Americans as health-care reform. “Obamacare,” which has been used as a derisive term, will ultimately be his proudest legacy. The ballooning number of people without health insurance will be reduced to zero by 2014 if the law isn’t overturned.
- And remember: People with health insurance don’t face death panels, but people without it potentially do every day.
Tags: Barack Obama, John Roberts