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March 16 (Bloomberg Law) — The US Supreme Court will soon hear one of its most important cases in years — the challenge to the Obama Administration’s health care reform law. The six-hour arguments — the longest session in decades — will stretch over three days, March 26th to March 28th. The lawyers will address four questions: First, should the Court even decide the cases now? If the law’s requirement that Americans buy health insurance or pay a penalty is a kind of tax, then it may be that the whole health care case is premature. Tax laws can’t be challenged until they take effect — in the case of the health care law, delaying a challenge until 2014. Second, can Congress force individuals to buy health insurance — the law’s so-called individual mandate? The challengers say if Congress can force you to buy health insurance, there’s nothing they can’t force you to buy. Third, if the Court strikes down the individual mandate, is the whole law invalid? Not necessarily, the Obama Administration claims. Fourth, under its power to spend money, can Congress require the states to expand the number of people eligible for Medicaid? The nine justices — five appointed by Republican presidents, four by Democrats — will probably decide the cases on March 30th, when they meet in secret to discuss the arguments. Many legal scholars believe the votes of Justices Anthony Kennedy or Antonin Scalia could determine the outcome. The public won’t learn what the decision is until the …
twitter.com twitter.com I’ve been meaning to address the historic passage of the health care bill, but wasn’t feeling fully qualified to break it down, so I got the noted health care expert and standup comic Hari Kondabolu to give his thoughts on Obama’s health care plan, and what he thinks we could have done to [...]
{Part II} – President Obama’s Critical Health Care Speech CLOSING – 09-09-09 – Obama: ‘No one should go broke because they got sick’ President Obama defended his proposal for government-run public health insurance as an option for consumers, saying it would force private insurers lower costs. But Obama, speaking now to a joint session of [...]
On India’s Healthcare Challenge, this week Kiran Mazumdar Shaw meets Analjit Singh, Chairman of Max New York Life India to discuss health insurance in India
The government has suspended for 3 months the implementation of the controversial universal health insurance scheme that was to be rolled out at the beginning of June by the national hospital insurance fund. This means that the new rates that were to be applicable as NHIF contributions from the month of May will not be [...]
The Indiana Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments on a case from an uninsured college student and police trainee who say they were both charged more than double the price for procedures because they didn’t have insurance.
Sue Lowden’s plan to solve the problem of skyrocketing health care costs? Go back to the barter system! So Doc, I have one box of cereal and one ’95 Ford Taurus with 210000 miles (though trust me, it runs great), how much of my broken leg can I get fixed? For non-chicken related Nevada news [...]
This is the VOA Special English Health Report, from voaspecialenglish.com President Obama has signed legislation to make the biggest changes in the health care system in forty-five years. The president said “Today, after almost a century of trying; today, after over a year of debate; today, after all the votes have been tallied, health insurance [...]
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http The highest court in the United States is considering the constitutionality of the new health care law. The Supreme Court heard arguments at the end of March over the question of what is called the individual mandate. It is part of the Affordable [...]