Court rejects idiotic challenge to ACA on standing grounds lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/06/but-we…
The better argument is that even if you assume arguendo that the $0 mandate is unconstitutional, it's absolutely ridiculous to claim that it can't be severed from the rest of the statute, when it has literally no impact on how anything else operates. But a win is a win.
But as the tone of Alito's dissent makes clear, the REAL argument against the ACA has nothing to with federalism, it's "the Constitution enacted Ms. Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, so regulations and subsidies designed to increase access to healthcare are bad" 
It's also important to evaluate the Court's decisions in the context of the caseflow. When the federal appellate courts mostly have very reactionary median votes, there are going to be more envelope-pushing challenges from the right, and some will go too far.
The Alito/Gorsuch argument on severability is literally that the statute should be interpreted as if Congress intended to repeal the ACA even though it had declined to do so months earlier:
The first time our blog led me to a publishing gig was when @sam_rosenfeld saw my "contrarian" posts about how Sam Alito would be a human manifestation of the most recent Republican Party platform rather than the apolitical moderate he was being sold as by a lot of the press
My innovative methodology was to focus on questions like "what are the outcomes of Alito's judicial opinions" rather than questions like "is his writing style like Scalia's" or "does he like baseball?"
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