Letter: Chief Justice Roberts Made the Right Decision in Upholding Obamacare

I was rather shocked and amazed today that the .

Not only did they find it constitutional, but they did so in the right way. It curtailed the expansion of government power using the Commerce Clause of the Constitution, but blessed it as a tax issue.

I'm personally OK with taxing people who can afford insurance, but choose not to buy it. That's because when such people are in a car accident and need life-long therapy, it's people, like me, who do buy insurance, who have to pay for them through higher insurance rates.

So this tax is making people pay for their own health care costs and as a conservative I believe in personal responsibility.

I'm also 56 years old and without universal health care I don't have to worry that I'm going to lose my home the first time I get sick.

I want to thank Chief Justice Roberts for making the right decision in light of a lot of other bad decisions the court has recently made. And I can see why Roberts voted the way he did. 

Why did Justice Roberts do it?

One thing I think we can all agree on in regards to the Supreme Court decision on Obamacare is — WOW! Who would have expected Justice Roberts to make that decision. I've been thinking about that all day wondering what made him do it and I have a theory: I think Roberts had a personal experience with reality.

I remember when Roberts was sworn in. He was there with his wife and two small children taking the oath and you could tell that he loved his family. I can't help but think that Roberts had a revelation and thought about the future. I think that he pondered what kind of world he was leaving to his children, and recognized how the decision he made today would impact the lives of his kids and future generations. I believe that Roberts might have understood the effect his choice would make and that he just couldn't do that to the future of America.

Morality comes from reality itself. When one looks into the future and calculates the difference between doing what is right compared to doing what's wrong, they realizes that if we are going to survive and continue to exist we have to make good choices. We are the descendants of ancestors who did what was right and species and cultures who didn't make the right choices are extinct.

I'm going to give Roberts the credit for taking his role in history seriously and doing what was right for his children and his children's children. He was under a lot of pressure to do what was wrong and he refused to go along. Today was a good day for America and we need good days if our nation is going to survive.

I'm Marc Perkel - and I approve this message!

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