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The Christian Science Monitor
| 11 months ago
The Affordable Care Act is still flawed, but it is also a milestone. Yesterday a majority of the Court upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act , otherwise known as Obamacare in recognition of its importance as a key initiative of the...
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Boston Globe
| 11 months ago
Roberts Jr. vowed to uphold the Supreme Court's role as a neutral arbiter to call balls and strikes and not to pitch or bat, as he put it. Many Democrats were skeptical of those promises including then-senator Barack Obama, who voted against Roberts'...
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Health Affairs Blog
| 11 months ago
Before yesterday's remarkable Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), I expected Chief Justice Roberts would lead a majority in a constrained decision which would avoid all but the narrowest consideration of constitutional questions. ...
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USA Today
| 11 months ago
That view is most frequently expressed by opponents of the decision 80% of Republicans and 67% of independents say they feel that way, compared with 47% of Democrats. The poll shows how important health care might be in the November elections. Four...
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DB's Medical Rants
| 11 months ago
Of course the victory is intriguing. Having read many editorials this morning, I have found no consensus on what the ruling really means. One should not fall prey to bashfulness on such an issue, so I will proffer my take borrowing much from other...
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Reuters
| 11 months ago
Topics Supporters of the Affordable Healthcare Act gather in front of the Supreme Court before the court's announcement of the legality of the law in Washington on June 28, 2012. Shares of hospital chains jumped, while large health insurer stocks...
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NY Daily News
| 11 months ago
There emerged in Washington on Thursday a powerful person who took a principled stand without regard to the rigid partisanship and winner-take-all ideological battling that consumes the nation's capital. To the great good of America, Supreme Court...
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Los Angeles Times
| 11 months ago
On Thursday, an unusual Supreme Court majority of "one" Chief JusticeJohn G. Roberts Jr. found that the healthcare law's individual mandate is unconstitutional under the power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce...This strange reasoning, not...
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Cliffside Park Citizen
| 11 months ago
Healthcare vcitory Friday, June 29, 2012 The Record THE U.S. Supreme Court's decision Thursday upholding the Obama administration reform of national health care policy is an important one in court history...Bush, is a major victory for President...
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The Hindustan Times
| 11 months ago
President Barack Obama scored a major victory in the run-up to the November presidential poll with the US Supreme Court in a historic verdict largely upholding his signature health care law. Obama's stunning victory in a 5-4 split verdict on Thursday...
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NY Daily News
| 11 months ago
The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision written by Chief Justice Roberts , upheld a mandate requiring almost all Americans to have health insurance or pay a penalty...A: Yes, Roberts determined that the penalty for not getting insurance would be a tax...
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Seattle Times
| 11 months ago
Originally published Thursday, June 28, 2012 at 8:41 PM Roberts unexpectedly joins liberals to uphold Obama health law The Bush nominee who said he saw himself as a judicial "umpire," calling balls and strikes, may have hit one out of the park with...
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Asian Wall Street Journal
| 11 months ago
The court upheld the mandate as a tax, in an opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts. The justices also found fault with part of the health-care law's expansion of Medicaid. The pivotaland most surprisingvote to uphold most of the Obama administration'...
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Truthdig
| 11 months ago
Supreme Court's decision upholding the health care law is not only a huge victory for President Obama but also a moment of leadership for Chief Justice John Roberts. The court's mixed verdict could create problems, notably in its weakening of the law'...
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The Independent
| 11 months ago
Back in September 2005, a certain neophyte Democratic Senator voted 'No' to the confirmation of John Roberts as Chief Justice of the United States. Now Barack Obama should be sending Mr Roberts a grovelling letter of apology confessing his error.
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Asian Tribune
| 11 months ago
35 editor The US Supreme Court declared that President Obama's health care law stood the ground of constitutionalitya validation of the central theme of his presidency and what most analysts called a feather in his cap. Mitt Romney disagreed and...
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Health Affairs Blog
| 11 months ago
Nearly three months to the day after the historic hearings on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Supreme Court has upheld the vast majority of the law's provisions. This includes the individual mandate,...
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The Economic Times
| 11 months ago
The US Supreme Court , on Thursday, upheld the core of President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul, giving him an election-year triumph and preserving most of a law that would expand insurance to millions of people and transform an industry that...
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Record
| 11 months ago
In a momentous ruling touching virtually every American, the Supreme Court narrowly upheld President Barack Obama's historic health care overhaul Thursday with the unlikely help of conservative Chief Justice John Roberts. But the decision also gave...
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USA Today
| 11 months ago
No, but the mandate is constitutional under Congress' taxing power, since the penalty for not getting insurance is administered like a tax. Severability If the individual mandate is unconstitutional, does it invalidate the entire law?...This question...
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Popeater
| 11 months ago
Although the requirement that contraception be covered by employers' health care plans was not an issue addressed by the Supreme Court on Thursday,... Chief Justice John Roberts ultimately sided with the Supreme Court's four liberals in upholding the...
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The Motley Fool
| 11 months ago
all popped today after the Supreme Court upheld the 2010 health care overhaul law. So what: While the decision is a negative for most health insurers since a more regulated process will likely pressure margins, Medicaid companies are breathing a sigh...
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The New York Times
| 11 months ago
Archive Recent Posts June 28 At a clinic that treats the poor, patients welcome news of the Supreme Court ruling. June 28 Libertarians find some reason to rejoice in a Supreme Court ruling derided by the right. June 28 President Obama offered a brief...
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International Herald Tribune
| 11 months ago
The decision was a victory for President Obama and Congressional Democrats, affirming the central legislative pillar of Mr. Obama's presidency. The ruling upheld the so-called individual mandate, which requires that nearly all Americans obtain health...
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Money Morning
| 11 months ago
President Barack Obama and his camp won a battle today (Thursday) when the Supreme Court handed down its landmark Obamacare ruling and upheld the constitutionality of the controversial healthcare law...Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, upheld a key...
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Asian Wall Street Journal
| 11 months ago
The court upheld the mandate as a tax, in an opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts. The justices also found fault with part of the health-care law's expansion of Medicaid. The Court's health ruling sent shares of hospital operators up, but pushed...
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The GoHealth Coverage Corner
| 11 months ago
June 28, 2012 Whether you are for it, against it, or a little bit of both there is no denying the fact that today's Supreme Court decision upholding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act marks a historic day for the United States. Despite...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 11 months ago
Washington The US Supreme Court upheld President Obama 's health-care reform law in its entirety on Thursday, ruling that Congress did not exceed its authority in passing key parts of the massive 2010 statute.
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CNSNews.com
| 11 months ago
Siding with the four Supreme Court liberals, Chief Justice John Roberts said Americans cannot avoid taxation by choosing not to act. First, and most importantly, it is abundantly clear the Constitution does not guarantee that individuals may avoid...
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United Press International
| 11 months ago
Supreme Court upheld a majority of President Obama's healthcare reform bill, outside of the Supreme Court on June 28, 2012 in Washington, D.C...Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Thursday the federal healthcare law's individual mandate survives as a tax,...
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National Public Radio
| 11 months ago
Even in Washington, a city where hyperbole rules, it still seems difficult to overstate how big a win the Supreme Court President Obama's signature piece of domestic legislation is for the man in the Oval Office. The Affordable Care Act is so...
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WebMD
| 11 months ago
The health care reform law will remain the law of the land. The Supreme Court, in a nuanced ruling, has upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) as constitutional. The controversial law, which fulfills a promise to provide...
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Health Affairs Blog
| 11 months ago
The one lesson that everyone should learn from reading the Supreme Court Affordable Care Act opinions is that we are all very poor seers when it comes to predicting the decisions of the United States Supreme Court. No one thought that Justice...
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Asian Wall Street Journal
| 11 months ago
The court upheld the mandate as a tax, in an opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts. The justices also found fault with part of the health-care law's expansion of Medicaid. The court's ruling removes a big question mark and will add momentum to shifts...
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Los Angeles Times
| 11 months ago
President Obama is will deliver remarks Thursday from the White House on the U.S. Supreme Court's historic decision to uphold his healthcare law. An administration official says the president will speak in the next couple of hours. White House aides...
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CNN
| 11 months ago
Can the court decide the constitutionality of health care now, or does it have to wait a few years? To answer, the court had to decide whether a penalty the law imposes on people who do not have health insurance amounts to a tax. The court's answer :...
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Fox News
| 11 months ago
FoxNews.com The Supreme Court has upheld the centerpiece of President Obama's health care overhaul, in effect allowing the law to survive. In a 5-4 decision unveiled Thursday, the court ruled as constitutional the so-called individual mandate...
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BBC
| 11 months ago
US Supreme Court upholds healthcare reform law The US Supreme Court has said President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare reform act is constitutional. The court upheld a core requirement known as the "individual mandate" that Americans buy insurance...
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Al Jazeera English
| 11 months ago
21 The United States Supreme Court has upheld President Barack Obama's landmark overhaul of the US healthcare system, handing Obama a historic victory and bolstering his chances of re-election. The 5-4 decision, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, ...
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Jerusalem Post
| 11 months ago
Chief Justice John Roberts is with the majority in ruling that the individual mandate is a tax. A sharply divided US Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the centerpiece of US President Barack Obama's signature healthcare overhaul law that requires that...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
Reactions" on Storify ] 10:27 a.m. Justice Ginsburg makes clear that the vote is 5-4 on sustaining the mandate as a form of tax. Her opinion, for herself and Sotomayor, Breyer and Kagan, joins the key section of Roberts opinion on that point.
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
The Supreme Court has upheld the individual mandate, crucial to President Barack Obama's signature legislation and health care law overhaul, in a victory for the Obama administration, in accordance with the tax writing provision of the U.S.
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Boston Globe
| 11 months ago
The bottom line: the entire ACA is upheld, with the exception that the federal government's power to terminate states' Medicaid funds is narrowly read...The Globe's Bobby Caina Calvan is at the Supreme Court and describes the scene on Political...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
Passage of the legislation by the Democratic-controlled Congress in 2010 capped decades of efforts to implement a national program of health care. If it is upheld and implemented, it is expected to extend health-care coverage to more than 30 million...
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Voice of America
| 11 months ago
The major focus of the nine-member court's ruling on the Affordable Care Act is the provision mandating that all Americans obtain health insurance by 2014 or face a financial penalty. Opponents say the provision is unconstitutional because the...
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DAWN
| 11 months ago
America awaits momentous Obamacare' ruling AFP 6 mins ago AFP activists protest ObamaCare in front of Supreme Court. President Barack Obama's overhaul of the failing US health care system could either be struck down, upheld, or a bit of both in a...
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United Press International
| 11 months ago
Supreme Court was poised Thursday to rule on the constitutionality of President Barack Obama 's landmark healthcare reform law. A decision is not only expected to shape national healthcare policy, but to have an impact on the presidential election in...
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Newsbusters
| 11 months ago
Although no one knows how the Supreme Court will rule, Thursday, on ObamaCare, journalists over the past few months have dismissed and derided the concept that the President's signature legislation could be declared unconstitutional. CNN's Jeffrey...
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CNN
| 11 months ago
Bill Mears has covered the Supreme Court for CNN for eight years. As the Supreme Court prepares to announce its ruling Thursday, there is much speculation on how the court will rule on the Affordable Care Act, one of the most polarizing pieces of...
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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
When the court takes a long hard look at the harm that a ruling nullifying the Affordable Care Act would do both to millions of uninsured Americans and to the legitimacy of the court, and when they consider seriously the expansive deference they have...
