Court to hear election-year health care law challenge
Justices to consider if initiative’s mandate is constitutional
Court to hear election-year health care law challenge
Justices to consider if initiative’s mandate is constitutional
Health Reform and the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court’s decision to review the constitutionality of health care reform means it will be issuing a ruling in the middle of the 2012 presidential campaign. This can be a highly politicized court, and, for the public good and its own credibility, it must resist that impulse.
If the court follows its own precedents, as it should, this case should not be a close call: The reform law and a provision requiring most people to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty are clearly constitutional.
Whatever Court Rules, Major Changes in Health Care Likely to Last
By REED ABELSON, GARDINER HARRIS and ROBERT PEAR
This article is by Reed Abelson, Gardiner Harris and Robert Pear.
For the nation’s health care system, there may be no going back.
No matter what the Supreme Court decides about the constitutionality of the federal law adopted last year, health care in America has changed in ways that will not be easily undone. Provisions already put in place, like tougher oversight of health insurers, the expansion of coverage to one million young adults and more protections for workers with pre-existing conditions are already well cemented and popular.
Florida’s push for specific waiver in health-care law could have big implications
By Sarah Kliff,
A seemingly obscure regulatory battle in Florida could upend efforts to implement health-care reform nationwide.
At issue is a regulation requiring insurance companies to spend at least 80 percent of premiums on medical costs. Florida, a swing state with voters skeptical of the health-reform law, is pushing back. The state wants the Obama administration to waive the spending requirement for Florida insurers, a move that critics say would roll back a crucial consumer protection in the health-reform law.
Scalia and Thomas dine with healthcare law challengers as court takes case
By James Oliphant
3:50 PM PST, November 14, 2011
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