Analyzing The Convoluted Supreme Court Ruling

Passed by sharply divided Congress, a sharply divided Supreme Court upholds the health care reform law in a sharply divided, convoluted way. The individual mandate ? forcing people to buy health insurance ? is unconstitutional. But making people pay a tax if they don?t buy insurance is a constitutional exercise of Congress?

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