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One week after the landmark Supreme Court ruling on the health care overhaul, the 2012 presidential candidates have each carved out a peculiar stance -- with Mitt Romney accepting the ruling's central argument and President Obama rejecting it.
The court ruled that the individual mandate requiring most Americans to buy health insurance was only constitutional if the fine for not buying insurance was deemed a tax. While Republicans disagreed with the ultimate outcome of the case -- that is, the law being upheld -- Romney ultimately said Wednesday he accepts the high court's finding that the fine is a "tax."
Yet Obama, while heralding the court decision as a victory for all Americans, has come down definitively against the high court's rationale for that decision.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/05/obamacare-ruling-leaves-2012…