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Is the Supreme Court decision ruling the PPACA valid just a Pyrrhic victory?

for the progressive liberal movement?
The majority opinion rejects the federal government's power to regulate inactivity under the Commerce Clause. It then goes on to reject a broad reading of the Necessary and Proper Clause. The opinion also imposes new limits on the federal government's ability to force the states to adopt federal programs, striking down the condition that Congress can withdraw all medicaid funding if a state refuses to go along with the medicaid expansion. These sections of the opinion are all about about the need to narrow Congress's power, and they impose new limits on federal power that have not been seen before.

Since the Court concluded it was a tax, the Democrats cannot filibuster its repeal because of the reconciliation procedure, now only 51 votes are needed in the Senate for repeal. (four additional seat for the Republicans is all that is needed)

Additionally it now allows the American people to have the final say at the polls this November.