Really?
Because it is not known whether the Affordable Care Act will remain, in whole or in part, it would be imprudent for New Jersey now to create an exchange before these critical threshold issues are decided with finality by the court, he added.
Mr. Christie was the second governor to veto such a law, following Gov. Susana Martinez of New Mexico, who is also a Republican. In New York, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat, took the opposite tack last month: after the Legislature declined to create an exchange, he established one by executive order.
Ultimately, Mr. Christies veto is largely symbolic. The federal law requires states to offer health care exchanges by January 2014, but provides that Washington will step in to administer them in states that fail to make progress by January 2013. In either case, the state pays to set up the health care exchange, but states that fail to create the exchanges lose the ability to oversee them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/11/n...health-insurance-exchange-for-new-jersey.html
Under the law as it was proposed.
Now that Roberts had to essentially rewrite the law.....and especially because of the question about medicaid, that might not be the case.
The law has not been rewritten and medicaid and healthcare exchanges are separate issues, with different funding methods. Did you study the topic?
If the Law had been interpreted as it was written, as a mandate under the Commerce Clause, is was unconstitutional, but is legal as a tax. The court changed that to a tax, so yes they did rewrite the law.