Mar 28 Minus a Mandate, Health Law Would Still Affect Millions By Julie Appleby Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call If the Supreme Court strikes down the requirement that most Americans carry health insurance - along with related provisions that insurers must sell to people with pre-existing conditions and not charge the sick more… Continue reading
Mar 28 Medicaid Expansion: Good or Bad for America? By Jason Kane It's slated to be an expansion of epic proportions. If the health care reform law pushes forward as planned, 16 million more Americans will receive health care coverage through the federal Medicaid program between 2014 and 2019. As the Supreme… Continue reading
Mar 28 Health Reform in the Supreme Court: Day 3 Audio, Transcript By Jason Kane Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images Updated at 5:15 p.m. with Medicaid expansion analysis. In this third and final day of Supreme Court arguments on the constitutionality of the health care reform law, two major questions remain before the Court: If… Continue reading
Mar 28 Supreme Court Reviews Health Reform Law: a Guide to Day 3 By Jason Kane Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images As Day 3 of the health reform hearings get under way, some things are already starting to seem routine. Outside the Supreme Court, the protesters arrive, the cameras roll, the health care reform debate is… Continue reading
Mar 27 Health Care Reform in the Supreme Court: Day 2 Audio and Transcript By Vanessa Dennis Court sketch by William J. Hennessy Jr. On day two of arguments before the Supreme Court about the health care reform law, the justices tackled the central question of whether it's constitutional to require most Americans to either buy health… Continue reading
Mar 27 What Is the Individual Mandate and What If It’s Declared Unconstitutional? By Susan Dentzer Photo by Chris Maddaloni/CQ Roll Call Today the Supreme Court waded into the legal arguments about whether Congress acted within its constitutional authority when it adopted the Affordable Care Act's "minimum coverage requirement" -- the so-called individual mandate. Health policy… Continue reading
Mar 27 Health Care Twitter Chat Recap By News Desk Dr. Olveen Carrasquillo checks up on Juan Gonzalez in Miami, Fla. in Jan. 2011; Joe Raedle/Getty Images Updated 6:30 p.m. ET March 27 The Supreme Court will hear a historic three days of arguments about whether the 2010 Affordable Care… Continue reading
Mar 27 Why I Support Health Care Reform: Voices of the Defense By Jason Kane They came marching, chanting, stomping to the beat of drums and the blare of a brass band -- doctors, nurses, the elderly and the chronically ill. After two years of watching people protest a piece of legislation they had struggled… Continue reading
Mar 27 Court of Public Opinion Weighs In on Health Care Reform Law By Christina Bellantoni People gather outside the Supreme Court Tuesday as justices hear arguments on the health care reform law. Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images. The nation's high court will be the center of the political universe Tuesday, with the key provision of… Continue reading
Mar 27 Supreme Court Reviews Health Care Reform Law: a Guide to Day 2 By Jason Kane Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images For more than two years now, it's been the nation's multibillion-dollar question: Can the federal government force Americans to buy health insurance or pay a fine if they don't? Banking that the answer is yes,… Continue reading