Seriously: Thank you, Mitt Romney.
It would have been enough for you to have been so instrumental in enacting the Massachusetts Health Care Reform statute, which led the way to PPACA. Yet you did even more: At a time when it seemed like no health care reform would get through Congress, you wrote an influential op-ed urging that the lessons of Massachusetts should be brought to the nation as a whole.
And they were.
And today, the SCOTUS upheld the mandate. Unpopular as it may be, the mandate is what makes the needed reforms possible -- as you yourself have noted.
So while I never thought I'd be saying this, I'll say it again: Thank You, Mitt Romney!
And I urge my fellow liberals, progressives, Democrats, and Kossacks to thank you too. Repeatedly.