From Fox News:

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled that the health care reform law’s requirement that nearly all Americans buy insurance is unconstitutional, a striking blow to the legislation that increases the odds that the Supreme Court will have to review the law.

The suit was brought by 26 states — nearly all led by Republican governors and attorneys general. The Department of Justice is expected to appeal…

Ultimately, the Supreme Court will decide – and I just can’t see how the Court will find the government having the power to force us to engage in commerce.  No matter how you slice it, no one has the right to force me to buy health insurance if I don’t want it…and no argument that I might wind up a public charge changes that because you don’t know if I will.  The best someone can do is write a law which says that if I don’t buy health insurance I will not have any deficiency made up at taxpayer expense.

Real health reform will have to wait, at all events, until we get a Republican President.  ObamaCare was never designed for any other purpose than destroying health insurance and thus forcing everyone to become a serf of the federal government in health care issues.  We do need deep reforms to how health care is delivered to the American people – but to get to the proper mix of free market, private charity and government support is not possible while Democrats are around trying to make it a vehicle to increase their personal power and wealth.