It turns out that the Obamacare ruling actually makes it easier to repeal it since, as a tax, it comes under the rules about reconciliation. Thus, it cannot be filabustered.
Roberts did not get the law off the hook.
Compared to striking the law down, he sure did. Only now we have his decision that the Feds can force any unconstitutional garbage they want as long as they use a tax to enforce it.
It does not matter what The Disaster calls the tax, it is still a tax, so Roberts was not wrong about that. I have not read the decision and was quite disappointed by it but from what I have discerned the decision is centered on the fact that a tax was passed.