"Conservative lawyers consoled themselves in defeat by focusing on the silver linings in Roberts' legal rationale, but there is no such consolation from the conservative policy perspective. And while liberals were initially elated that the court had left the law standing, they, too, are anguished. The central goal of the law was to increase access to health insurance toward their holy grail of universal coverage, but Roberts destroyed that by making enrollment in private health insurance and the Medicaid expansion optional."  MORE >>