Massive victory for Obama

[JDPriestly]

96. I have been suggesting all along that they should have done the mandate under

the tax and spend authority of Congress. I shouldn't toot my own horn, but I have to get in a little "told you so." I also predicted that Roberts, father of two children, would decide in favor of the bill.

It isn't that I think that Roberts reached his decision based on personal considerations, but that having two fairly young children, at least still school age I believe, makes him a little more realistic about how the law will affect insurance companies and families.

Scalia and Kennedy had, I believe, fairly large families, but their children are grown. The change from primarily non-profit to nearly overwhelmingly for-profit insurance took place, as I remember it (and I could be wrong) in the 1980s through the 1990s. If you raised your children before that time, or at least got them through their early childhood diseases before that time, you probably don't understand what the fuss about. Insurance was not nearly as prohibitively expensive when these older Justices were raising their children -- and certainly not as expensive compared to average incomes.