Richard Esenberg at PointofLaw.com ponders the constitutional challenge to Obamacare and its likely outcome:

Were I to wager on the question (which may turn out to be an exercise in reading the mind of Anthony Kennedy), I would expect the Court to uphold the individual mandate. But the day that it does will be a tragic one for the Republic. . . .
It will be tragic because the notion of a Congress limited by the scope of its enumerated powers will have finally suffered the coup de grace. The Bill of Rights (once famously – and now ironically – thought to be unnecessary given the structural limits on the power of the national government) will become the only limitation on the power of Congress. If Congress can require you to buy health insurance because of the ways in which your uncovered existence effects interstate commerce or because it can tax you in an effort to force you to do any old thing it wants you to, it is hard to see what – save some other constitutional restriction – it cannot require you to do – or prohibit you from doing.

Every power grab is the new base camp for the next power grab. That’s another reason why it’s necessary to repeal or otherwise kill Obamacare — because its underlying assumptions about the power of the central government will not be confined to insurance mandates.