Wow. From SCOTUSblog: "Section 5000A need not be read to do more than impose a tax"

http://www.scotusblog.com/cover-it-live/

"The money quote from the section on the mandate: Our precedent demonstrates that Congress had the power to impose the exaction in Section 5000A under the taxing power, and that Section 5000A need not be read to do more than impose a tax. This is sufficient to sustain it."