It is a sad day. This country was fought for INDEPENDENCE. That independence is slowly slipping further and further from us. Our Government needs to go back to what the Constitution was founded on. We are going backwards not forward if we keep running this country the way it is.

I am very upset at this decision, and I have said, if they held this horrible decision up, then we are DOOMED, and so we ARE DOOMED for our future, for my parents, my generation and the generations to come, We cannot overcome all the rights that have already been taken away from us, and NOW MORE TO COME!! Mark it down, as a country, we are DOOMED!!!

There is no limit to the federal government. Once it was decided that it was ok to take your home "for the better good" there was no limit to what could be done.

I for one am pleased to see this decision...I'm frankly tired of paying higher and higher healthcare premiums because of people who fail to buy coverage and then just show up in the emergency room with the flu because they can't just go to a doctor. All the people out there saying we shouldn’t force people to buy insurance ought to tell me why as a responsible person should HAVE to pay for others who choose not to spend the money on insurance? Do you not think there are not other things I’d like to do with the hundreds of dollars it cost to have health insurance for my family? I agree 100% with the ruling; if you don’t want to buy insurance fine, but guess what you can pay a tax penalty into a fund that keeps me from paying for you every time you get sick or hurt!

As soon as the decision was was announced a death panel convened outside my house and deemed my pet armadillo too costly to keep alive. Where will it end people, WHERE WILL IT END?

The supreme irony here? Judge Roberts was the deciding vote and he was appointed by George Bush and Republican controlled Congress.

So Obama has George Bush to thank for this!

John Roberts is the Severus Snape of SCOTUS (Dick Cheney is Voldemort, BTW)

"I felt a great disturbance in the Powder Springs Patch, as if millions of conservative Neal Boortz fans suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."

Obviously, Faux news lives on Powder Springs....the most uninformed and incorrect way to get the news. Thank God more people will have the chance to accessible health care. America does not have the best health care system in the world and we pay more and get less. Maybe we can finally move towards better health care for all. FYI - there are no such things as "death panels". It simply allows your physician to discuss all your health options and spend some time talking with the patient as to what are the PATIENT'S wishes.

Only in Georgia would so many overweight, diabetic people with heart disease be upset that they're gonna have healthcare.

My two cents here: Yes, we need healthcare reform..badly. Is ANOTHER tax the answer: NO! Do a little research and see how much the average American Taxpayer will be expected to pony up to cover these folks. There has got to be a better way.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/28/republicans-ruling-focuses-election-obamas-health-/
"The high court’s ruling leaves in place 21 tax increases in the health care law costing more than $675 billion over the next 10 years, according to the House Ways and Means Committee. Of those, 12 tax hikes would affect families earning less than $250,000 per year, the panel said, including a “Cadillac tax” on high-cost insurance plans, a tax on insurance providers and an excise tax on medical-device manufacturers"

It is not for the feds to tell me, us what We have to buy! I chose not to buy insurance and that is my right! Get it! If you think it's okay for the feds to tell you what you can and can not buy you are sadly mistaken! Read The Constitution! You people want a socialist government, there are plenty of other countries to accomodate you. If you think for one minute you are going to have controll of your health care, you are sadly mistaken. You better read this bill! There are doctors you can go to without going to the ER. Use some common sense. Just because you have no insurance does not mean you just go to the ER. Take resposibilty and find a doctors office with reasonable fees. They are out there!
I am sick of people of think we should pay for everybody else! Obviously by some of these comments people think the government exist to take care of them! It does not! Read the bill!!!!!!

Congress created this problem when they made it against the law to turn people away from hospitals, if they didn't have the ability to pay.
Therefore, when you see ANY doctor and you can't pay for it. They pass the cost off onto anyone with an insurance policy. My wife has been an OR Nurse for the pass 20 years, when they have Patience's with insurance, they will open every item, even if they don't use them, just so they can recoup the cost for un-insured people.

The really "sad" part of this whole thing is to see people who need these benefits the most screaming and flapping their arms because somebody (I’m pretty sure 99.9% of them NEVER actually read the bill) told them it was SOCILISIM!! They will vote against their best interest if someone with a lot of money tells them it’s bad…because they can’t tell them they don’t want Obama raising their taxes!
I have great insurance, my family can go to the best doctors and be treated at anytime without us trying to decide if we can pay for food BUT a lot of people stand in long lines and wait months to have a tooth pulled. The very poor already have Medicaid so we're not giving them a free ride, but the person who works for a low wage getting up and going to work every day (not to mention the ones working for small companies) can't get insurance! When you worry that it takes food out of their kids mouth or it’s just flat not available through your employer, you aren’t mooching…these people work for God Sakes!
What is wrong with the people in this country? Did everyone forget the Christian principal (this country was founded on) of whatever you do for the least of your brothers...come on a little compassion here folks. I don't think everyone needs a "Cadillac plan" but basic expansion of Medicaid to help the working poor isn't too much to ask and if it cost you a little extra taxes just pray about it on Sunday and see if you can open a tiny place in your heart :)

If there is a better way I'd love to hear it! The “public sector” GOP argument is sort of like “deregulate the banks and the market will police its self”…that worked out great for everyone :(
I'm not a liberal I've voted for the GOP many times over the years, and I’m sorry to say I think Obama is over his head. I am that 100% a swing vote. I really felt after these past four years I would be back with the GOP but Romney is not getting a vote from me! He is a flip flopper and if you believe the Romneycare guy is going to repeal anything you must be crazy!
I wanted a single payer system similar to Medicare...problem solved. It seems funny to me that older citizens who LOVE their Medicare don't want to share it with anyone else and rail against "government healthcare" while using the system successfully. Sounds like "I got mine you figure yours out on your own" Single payer is just Medicare for everyone and I never hear anyone, including my 84 year old Grandma, complaining. She loves Medicare it has taken excellent care of her! I've never had any issues getting her a doctor or access to the care she needs.

I don't think anyone has the answer to another way yet...I awaiting to see what happens and who says what. I know I just believe wholeheartedly that I can not afford ANY MORE TAXES coming our of my paycheck - especially for this fiasco!

On a side note: my brother received very good care through the Good Sam where he lives for OVER 10 YEARS until he was finally approved for SS and was eligible to receive Medicare and Medicaid. He received free meds, visits with doctors, heck even a few surgies thanks to that place. Don't tell me there isn't places folks can't go to get free healthcare now!

Have you ever seen the waiting list for those community places, and if you have a job making low wages how in the world do you take days off to stand in line and hope they see you?

Does anyone remember this story?… By the time the free health clinic at the Oakland Coliseum opened Saturday at dawn, some 800 tickets had been handed out to people who waited in the cold all night for the chance to have a tooth extracted, get new glasses or to finally get prescription medications for arthritis or other painful conditions

Is this really the country we want to live in?? Where people stand in line for up to 12 hours just to get a pair of glasses and rotten teeth pulled? I think we're better than that. If everyone bought insurance this wouldn’t be an issue. Call it a tax or whatever you want but those are just political words, at the end of the day we're talking about how we treat those people around us and it makes me sad to hear people say "I can't afford more" when they know there are people with a lot less.

Do you think it would be any better with this plan that is proposed? Where are all the extra doctors and nurses going to come from? Thin air? See the articial linked:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/29/health/doctor-shortage-affordable-care-act/index.html
"They have good reason to worry. When Thailand enacted the "30-bhat scheme" in 2002, requiring all patients to be covered by health insurance, 14 million people were added to the country's health care system. The result was longer waits at the doctor's office and complaints of subpar service."

A friend of my husband that lives in the UK (universal healthcare, right?) almost died what was at first a mild kidney infection..the doctors first available appointment was three weeks out. It got so bad, she went to the ER and they treated her, but not until her kidneys were severely damaged. Is this what we want in our country??

That is what's going on in this country! Hello...what do you think happens to people without insurance? They get no treatment and either become seriously (which means expensive for the tax payers) ill or die. I think unless people go around with their head in the sand they have to know medical insurance companies such as BC/BS Aetna and United HC are already "rationing services" and making people jump through hoops for care and prescriptions and that's IF you have insurance, if you don't well then it's even worse. I can't believe you haven't heard how insurance companies drop people during cancer treatments or won't allow them certain drugs or procedures because they are too expensive.
I know plenty of people from Canada and Europe and NONE of them (unless you know some very wealthy people who can afford to buy special care) would give up their Universal HC....just like no elderly people would give up Medicare. If it's so bad why do people who have it never want to give it up???

And pray tell what can the govenment do cheaper and better than the free market?