Wednesday morning’s arguments in the Supreme Court case on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) revolved around a seemingly hypothetical question: If the court says the individual mandate that requires individuals to obtain health insurance is illegal, what happens to the rest of the law? Should it, too, be struck down?
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Attorneys for the Obama administration and opponents of the Affordable Care Act squared off in the Supreme Court this morning over the law’s most controversial provision: the mandate to obtain health insurance coverage or pay a penalty.
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A US Supreme Court justice seen as a key swing vote challenged the landmark health reform Tuesday in a second day of arguments focusing on whether it is constitutional to require Americans to buy health insurance.
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State officials and insurance executives are devising possible alternatives to the coming federal requirement that most Americans buy health insurance.
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In the first day of arguments before the U.S Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, the issue was about whether the law’s penalty for not purchasing health insurance is essentially a tax.
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As the second anniversary of the Affordable Care Act approaches, a new Commonwealth Fund report finds that 49 states and the District of Columbia have already taken action supporting the law’s implementation, such as passing legislation, issuing regulations or other guidance, or actively reviewing insurer filings…
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration on Friday is expected to propose official language laying out its plan to accommodate the moral concerns of religiously affiliated institutions that oppose birth control, according to sources familiar with the matter. The announcement of a new “Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking” would not alter President Barack Obama’s adopted policy requiring access to free employer-sponsored health insurance coverage for women’s contraceptives, the sources said. …
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