The Supreme Court’s ruling in King v. Burwell is disappointing. But it also provides a welcome moment of clarity: We can finally dispense with the false belief that the Supreme Court will save us from Obamacare. It is perhaps a blessing for the cause of repeal that all eyes will now turn to the presidential candidates and to Congress, whose job it is to repeal Obamacare in full in early 2017.  Accountability is no longer divided.  The political branches must act.

It is important to note that the Court’s decision had no relationship to the question of Obamacare’s merits.  The case was limited to the question of whether the Obama administration is executing the law as written.  The Court says it is.  The Court also says, “In a democracy, the power to make the law rests with those chosen by the people.”  Indeed, it does. And what was true the day after Obamacare’s passage is equally true today:  the law must be repealed.