Health Care Act Offers Roberts a Signature Case
By ADAM LIPTAK
WASHINGTON — When Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. takes his usual center seat on the Supreme Court bench on March 26, he will begin presiding over an extraordinary three days of arguments that will determine the fate of President Obama’s sweeping health care law.
The decision in the case, expected by June, will have practical consequences for tens of millions of Americans without health insurance, and it may affect Mr. Obama’s re-election chances.
It will also shape, if not define, the chief justice’s legacy.
Chief Justice Roberts is just 57, and he will probably lead the Supreme Court for an additional two decades or more. But clashes like the one over the health care law come around only a few times in a century, and he may well complete his service without encountering another case posing such fundamental questions about the structure of American government.
The case will require the chief justice to choose between two competing instincts.
Health care overhaul long way from done deal - Nation - The Boston Globe
Despite Republican pledges to repeal the overhaul, the Obama administration arguably has done more to scale it back.
WASHINGTON - It took only a year to set up Medicare. But if President Obama’s health care law survives Supreme Court scrutiny, it will be nearly a decade before all its major pieces are in place.And that means even if Obama is reelected, he will not be in office to oversee completion of his signature domestic policy accomplishment, assuming Republicans do not succeed in repealing it.
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latimes.com/business/la-fi-health-tech-20120310,0,1253103.storyHospitals and doctors have received billions of dollars in government subsidies to upgrade electronic health records, but they have not done enough to make those records shareable, a top federal health official said.
Farzad Mostashari, national coordinator for health information technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, said Friday in Los Angeles that the government is proposing that medical providers have the capability for exchanging patient data by 2014.
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