ICYMI: Mitt Romney response on health care decision
“I Will Act to Repeal Obamacare”
ICYMI: Obama responds to health care reform ruling
“Today’s decision was a victory for people all over this country.”
Health Care Reform: Four questions for SCOTUS
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Does an 1867 law, the Anti-Injunction Act, prevent the Supreme Court from reviewing and deciding the health care law challenge? The act bars pre-enforcement challenges to taxes. The penalty in the health care law for failure to purchase minimum insurance will be enforced by the Internal Revenue Service, but will not appear on a taxpayer’s tax return until 2015.
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Is the so-called individual mandate to purchase health insurance constitutional?
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If the mandate is unconstitutional, can it be severed from the rest of the law or must the entire law fall?
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Does the expansion of Medicaid coverage for the poor and disabled unconstitutionally coerce the states into participating, because if they do not participate, they risk losing federal money in the federal-state funded program?
Need a last-minute refresher on the SCOTUS health reform case?
(Source: pbs.org)
We got you.
Today at 1 p.m. we’re hosting a live chat with folks who know this stuff inside and out:
- NewsHour health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser.
- Mary Agnes Carey, a reporter from Kaiser Health News.
- Neera Tanden, president of the liberal think tank Center for American Progress and a former architect of the health care law.
- Joseph Antos, a scholar in health care and retirement policy at the conservative American Enterprise Institute.
To participate, tweet us @newshour with #HCRchat.
To get you started - Supreme Court Reviews Health Care Form Law: a Guide to Day 2
Yesterday was about the “meat and potatoes” — establishing jurisdiction. Today, we get into the real issues on constitutionality: Can the federal government force Americans to buy health insurance or pay a fine if they don’t?
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Some are calling it the trial of the century - here’s a guide to Day 1 of the Affordable Care Act as it hits the Supreme Court.
(Photos by @jasokane and @lornabaldwin)
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