Go ahead, dig into John Roberts' full ObamaCare opinion here. But Dylan Matthews at Vox thinks you need to read only one sentence from the chief justice, near the end. "Congress passed the Affordable Care Act to improve health insurance markets, not to destroy them." It's that simple, writes Matthews: The point of ObamaCare "is to make health insurance markets work better and cover more people. To change the law so as to make them work worse, Roberts concluded, is to betray its clear intent." Some other insights after today's big ruling:
- State exchanges done? Now that the court has upheld the notion that consumers on the federal exchange are entitled to subsidies, expect more states to opt out of running their own exchanges and let the feds handle it, writes Margot Sanger-Katz at the New York Times. States have discovered that it's more complicated and expensive than they thought.