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Obamacare: the 2,300-page monstrosity
The most important six hours of recent American history will start to unfold on Monday. That day, the Supreme Court begins three days of oral argument on the legal challenge to President Barack Obama's health care reform law ("Obamacare"). The Court's...Tags: Judges, Democratic Party, Lawyers, Nancy Pelosi, Health Insurance
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The case for Obamacare
After three days of arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court, the case for the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, better known as "Obamacare," remains strong. Four members of the court, including the justice expected to be the key swing vote...
Tags: Judges, Insurance, Lawyers, Health Insurance, Elections
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Analysis Health care arguments: Can any portion survive?
WASHINGTON (AP)— The Supreme Court signaled Wednesday that it could throw out other key parts of President Barack Obama's health care law if it first finds the individual insurance requirement unconstitutional. On the third and last day of...Tags: Judges, Democratic Party, Elena Kagan, Lawyers, Health Insurance
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Audio: 10 moments from the Supreme Court debate on healthcare
WASHINGTON -- Solicitor Gen. Donald Verrilli Jr., representing the government, makes his opening statement, arguing that insurance has become the predominant way that Americans pay for healthcare. But Verrilli argues the system is broken because people...Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Judges, Elena Kagan, Lawyers, National Government
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McManus: Obama's 'tax' lapse
In 2009, President Obama was asked whether the individual mandate in his healthcare plan was really just a tax in disguise. "I absolutely reject that notion," he responded. But if the president had been brave enough back then to call a tax a tax, his...Tags: Judges, Medicare, Democratic Party, Lawyers, U.S. Senate
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Reading the court's mind
The Supreme Court's three days of arguments on the constitutionality of the Obama health care law have triggered a guessing game, replacing for the moment the 2012 presidential campaign as topic A on the nation's nonstop talk shows. Did the justices'...
Tags: Joe Biden, Judges, John Paul Stevens, James Carville, Republican Party
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What does Ruth Bader Ginsburg mean by 'conservative'?
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburglikes the Indian Healthcare Improvement Act and other ingredients of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka "Obamacare." Why, she asked toward the end of three days of hearings, shouldn't the court...
Tags: Democratic Party, G.K. Chesterton, Planned Parenthood, William F. Buckley, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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High court rules strip search reasonable after traffic stop
A New Jersey man who was strip searched in prison after being accused of failing to pay a traffic fine lost his Supreme Court appeal Monday. The 5-4 divided court found two county jails "struck a reasonable balance between inmate privacy and the needs of...
Tags: Trials, Minority Groups, Clarence Thomas, September 11, 2001 Attacks, News Agency
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Hey, Justice Scalia: Mandate prevents freeloading
In the arguments before the Supreme Court on the individual mandate portion of the Affordable Care Act, Justice Antonin Scalia likened it to a slippery slope that could lead to the federal government forcing citizens to buy broccoli. In response, U.S....Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Health, Theft, Health Insurance, Healthcare Policies
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Obamacare: High court is just doing its job
Both Eileen Ambrose ("Oppose health care act at your own risk," April 1) and Dan Rodricks ("Razing the JFX, lowering O's expectations," April 3) miss the issue before the Supreme Court. The issue has nothing to do with the provisions of the Patient...Tags: Health, Barack Obama, Democratic Party, U.S. Senate, Crime, Law and Justice
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Rodricks is spot on about 'spot on'
Thanks to Dan Rodricks for shining the spotlight on that annoying expression, "spot on" ("Razing the JFX, lowering O's expectations," April 2). It is a British way of thinking that something can be perfectly correct, while in America we know that...Tags: Health, Health Insurance Cost, National Government, Government, Politics
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With clock ticking, Indiana GOP Senate race heats up
Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock's campaign released a new radio ad Monday, hammering six-term incumbent Sen. Dick Lugar of Indiana and adding to the thickening tension between the two candidates in the final two weeks of the primary race....
Tags: Clarence Thomas, Elena Kagan, U.S. Senate, Advertising, Elections
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