Why Chief Justice Roberts and not Scalia, Thomas, Alito, & Kennedy?
Tweety is discussing that right now. Chief Justice basically stated he went looking for a way to square the law with the Constitution. So he looked until he found it.
But why? Tweety ponders. He decides it's because Roberts was moral in his judgment and truly wanted to do something good and right for the country.
I have a different take. What is different about Roberts from the other conservatives on the S.Ct.? It's that he has YOUNG CHILDREN. He has a view of the country where he looks forward into the lives of his children, possibly. He can view the ACA from the viewpoint of parents who want to carry their college aged kids on their policies? He wants a country where his kids no longer have to foot the bill for tens of millions of citizens with no health care coverage? He wants a country where there is at least an attempt at health care cost control because it's run amuck? It's hard to say. But it's definitely a difference that he is the only conservative with young children, so it's hard to imagine that that didn't have something to do with it.
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Knew it would be a win for the insurance industry. 
http://it-jobs.fins.com/Articles/SBB0001424052702304058404577494530999215186/Jobs-in-Health-Care-to-Expand-with-Court-Ruling
Jobs in Health Care to Expand with Court Ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision upholding "Obamacare" will have major implications for patients, insurers and hospitals. It will also determine the future of jobs in the health-care industry.
Upholding the federal health-care law, formally called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), as well as the mandate that everyone buy insurance could bring as many as 30 million new customers into the industry, causing significant uptick in both use and spending, said Linda J. Blumberg, senior fellow at The Urban Institute Health Policy Center.
More money will flow to "pharmaceutical companies, doctors, hospitals, the people they employ, and even insurers," said Joseph White, Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy and chair of the Department of Political Science at Case Western Reserve University.
Job growth will likely be strongest in the primary care and home care fields, said Joanne Spetz, a professor at the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco. The demand for health-care workers like dietitians, social workers and hospital administrators will also increase.
