[credit: Bill Schorr]
U.S. Person is not featuring a cartoon of the Obamanator because the health care legislation that survived the Supremes is largely a version of the plan that a Repugnant governor of Massachusetts signed into law. Chief Justice Roberts provided the swing vote because he is the Chief Justice and has his perogatives on the Court. Call
U.S. cynical and
unprofessional, but Roberts voted for the bill not because he believes in any form of socialized medicine or that the individual mandate is constitutional (because under prior precedent it is), but because Romneycare is a bonanza for the insurance industry now that Americans will be required to buy health insurance. If Romneycare had failed, the next stop was actual socialized medicine, i.e.
single payer, and that would have been a disaster for the corporatists.
