Claudette,Passed by House and Senate. Signed by President. Opined by SCOTUS. Obama re-elected easily in 2012 when the GOP's signature campaign points was to overthrow ACA.
Yes, ACA is the law of the land and the Will of We the People.
Yes, it was passed by the House and the Senate, without a single Republican vote. Moreover it was passed without having been read by anyone who voted for it. Remember the words of Nancy Pelosi?
The President signed it because he was just as uninformed and ignorant about the details as were the members of the House and the Senate.
How come the ruling of the Supreme Court is more valid now than it was regarding the 2000 presidential election?
ACA is every bit as bad a law as the Prohibition was and it will be repealed just as the Prohibition was.
There are a lot of programs that exist in America that our founding fathers never mentioned in the Constitution. For example, the Constitution says nothing about air traffic controllers. And it doesn't say anything about building a federal freeway system. The Dept of Ag, the EPA, and the FDA were never mention either. Yet we have them and more!!!! And why do we have them? The answer is found in the Preamble of the Constitution:
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
All of the programs mentioned above "promote the general welfare." I'm curious, are you so far gone that you cannot see that helping 30 million Americans get health care IS PROMOTING THE GENERAL WELFARE? Or do you believe promoting the general welfare means placing those 30 million in a position where a major illness or accident will force them into bankrupcy and eventually onto the street?