The cost of this thing is what is not being dealt with. The cost is going to be somewhere well over a trillion dollars. It's going to chew up all of the available assets that our federal government brings to deal with a lot of other problems. I'm not saying we shouldn't do something about health care. This is just not the way to deal with it. It is just going to cost a fortune. And nobody's got the finances. It's going to destroy state governments. It's going to destroy the federal government's ability to do a lot of things. -Mortimer Zuckerman

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President Obama, right after the high court ruling, said this, in part, quote: They're reaffirmed a fundamental principle, that here in America, in the wealthiest nation on earth, no illness or accident should lead to any family's financial ruin. I know there will be a lot of discussion today about the politics of all this, about who won and who lost. That's how these things tend to be viewed here in Washington. But that discussion completely misses the point. Whatever the politics, today's decision was a victory for people all over this country whose lives will be more secure because of this law and the Supreme Court's decision to uphold it. Unquote.