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Better. this constitutional debate, although it's fascinating and important in policy terms, frankly is not what's important to me. if you look at what's good about the law, 30 million people get coverage. that's crucial. the other part of the law that's important to me is care gets better. people know health care isn't working well for them. under this law it will work better. that thrills me about where we are headed as a country now. >> the people who are going bankrupt paying all of these bills. that's the other side to it. the diversity of concerns embedded in the affordable care act. som...

Five votes that were clear votes on what the commerce clause power is. chief john roberts wrote for himself and they did not agree with him, so we don't have exactly five votes, we might have a lot of dicta, that's legalese for throat clearing, so i don't know that there's a poison pill in here. i think this might be a one time only moment, and furthermore, as long as we call this a tax going forward, rachel, we won't have this problem again. >> in terms of calling it a tax, i believe that was a legally crucial distinction. let me float to you what i think that means in policy terms. as far as...

These are pretty constrained rulings, that there were not five votes that were clear votes on what the commerce clause power is. chief john roberts wrote for himself and they did not agree with him, so we don't have exactly five votes, we might have a lot of dicta, that's legalese for throat clearing, so i don't know that there's a poison pill in here. i think this might be a one time only moment, and furthermore, as long as we call this a tax going forward, rachel, we won't have this problem afqin. >> in terms of calling it a tax, i believe that was a legally crucial distinction. let me float...

>> well, the wisconsin recall is important nationally for two reasons. first of all, for what, if anything, it can tell us about how voters are feeling in advance of november and what kind of omens we may get for that and second for the future in policy terms, the future of the labor movement and future of conservatism as a lot of governors are seeking to emulate scott walker's example. i tend to think wisconsin is not on a lot of people's list of swing states at this point and that is going to be difficult to change, even if walker wins by a large margin. republicans are really sort of strain...

then robert zoelik will step down as head of the world bank. his exit interview here on "gps." next, we go to israel which has anointed a king. what in the world does it mean? and, finally, the curious case of the guy who has come to be known as american french fry brother. a cultural lost in translation all the way from china. you won't want to miss it. first, here's my take. everyone is looking at europe these days as economic and political protests mount across the continent. the downward spiral in europe has produced a great debate over the virtues of austerity. the idea th...