Why Chief Justice Roberts voted for Obamacare

A lot of people have been wondering why the right-wing extremist Chief Justice of the United States, John Roberts, could not only have broken ranks with his right-wing clones--Alito, Kennedy, Thomas and Scalia--to vote in favor of the Affordable Care Act in the case of National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, but to have actually written the majority opinion himself, sending waves and shock and dismay among the ranks of the Republican politicians and the mainstream media.

One possible explanation has been offered by some observers: Chief Justice Roberts suffers from epilepsy [his seizures were documented  in 1993 and 2007] and it is almost a certainty that he has been refused medical insurance by the plutocrats' insurance companies because of his "prior condition."  So, in writing his decision in which he concurred with the four progressive justices--Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan--he may not have been thinking of the 30 million uninsured Americans, but, just like most people, he might have been thinking "Me first."

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Read political commentator and broadcaster Thom Hartmann's view on the decision:

The absurd Republican reaction to Obamacare being upheld

 

The Supreme Court's health care ruling on Thursday protected hundreds of millions of Americans from being denied health insurance for pre-existing conditions, kept millions of young people insured under their parents healthcare plans, and will eventually lead to coverage of more than 30 million Americans who previously did not have access to health insurance. But if you asked Republicans about the ruling, they'd say it's a sign of the apocalypse.

 

The reactions from Republicans to Obamacare being upheld are telling. Republican Congressman Mike Pence compared the ruling to 9/11. The former Spokesman for the Michigan Republican Party, Mike Davis, argued that an armed revolution might now be justified. And Conservative radio hosts Michael Savage and Bryan Fischer attacked Chief Justice John Roberts, suggesting this his decision may have been influenced by epilepsy medication - a story that was also picked up on the Drudge Report.

 

The point is, Obamacare will save the lives of millions of Americans - and if Republicans think that's as bad for the nation as 9/11 or a sign that an armed revolution is necessary, then there's something very rotten in today's Conservative movement. It's clear today's Conservatives have been taken over by a strain of Ayn Rand psychopathy.

 

Source: The absurd Republican reaction to Obamacare being upheld