From POLITICO Pro this chart shows the main provisions of the law after the ruling.

Obama comments on health ruling

“Whatever the politics, today’s decision was a victory for people all over this country whose laws will be more secure because of this law and the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold it,” Obama said Thursday at the White House.

Obama also mentioned the politics of the argument, noting that in the past the individual mandate “enjoyed support from members of both parties, including the current Republican nominee for president.”

On the losing end of a 5-4 decision, Justices Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito say that the entire health care reform law should have been struck down. They write: “The Act before us here exceeds federal power both in mandating the purchase of health insurance and in denying nonconsenting states all Medicaid funding. These parts of the Act are central to its design and operation, and all the Act’s other provisions would not have been enacted without them. In our view it must follow that the entire statute is inoperative.”

The Supreme Court has upheld the health care reform law’s individual mandate in an opinion authored by Chief Justice John Roberts and joined in by Justices Elena Kagan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor.

Chief Justice John Roberts joined with the liberals to uphold the individual mandate under Congress’s taxing power.