Romney's certainly right on the facts, that at least immediately, if you're going to want to replace Obamacare - it's not going to happen now. It's not going to happen in Congress now unless he's elected and gets a Republican Senate, a Republican House. Then it could possibly be repealed. But I wish he would have taken the opportunity to talk a little bit about his own health care plan, though. -James Pethokoukis

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The former Massachusetts governor and Republican presidential candidate responded to the High Court's ruling on health care, quote, What the court did not do on its last day in session, I will do on my first day if elected president of the United States, and that is, I will act to repeal Obamacare. Let's make clear that we understand what the court did and did not do. What the court did today was say that Obamacare does not violate the Constitution. What they did not do was say that "Obamacare" is good law or that it's good policy. "Obamacare" was bad policy yesterday. It's bad policy today. Obamacare was bad law yesterday. It's bad law today. Let me tell you why I say that. Obamacare raises taxes on the American people by approximately $500 billion. Obamacare cuts Medicare, cuts Medicare, by approximately $500 billion. And even with those cuts and tax increases, Obamacare adds trillions to our deficits and to our national debt and pushes those obligations onto coming generations. Unquote. Mr. Romney also said "Obamacare" means 20 million Americans will lose the coverage they like. "Obamacare" is a job killer. "Obamacare" makes the government too big, too intrusive.