Supreme Court pushes health care ruling to next week
[div class="excerpt" style="border: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-bottom: none; border-radius: 0.3846em 0.3846em 0em 0em; box-shadow: 2px 2px 6px #bfbfbf;"]Supreme Court pushes health care ruling to next week[div class="excerpt" style="border: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-top: none; border-radius: 0em 0em 0.3846em 0.3846em; background-color: #f4f4f4; box-shadow: 2px 2px 6px #bfbfbf;"]Another morning of Supreme Court opinions came and went Thursday with no ruling on the national health care law, pushing the court’s most anticipated decision in years to the final week of June.
The constitutionality of the national health care law, passed in 2010 without a single Republican vote, was challenged by 26 states that argued the law infringed upon states’ rights and individual liberties. They contended the federal government could not compel citizens to purchase health insurance.
The government has asserted that every citizen is already a health care consumer because everyone requires care at some stage of life.
Uncertain is whether the law is inseparable -- that if the individual health insurance mandate were to fall, the rest of the law would have to go down with it. The decision is monumental for President Obama, whose signature domestic achievement is at stake. He has insisted the law is constitutional.
Gettin' down to the wire on this one.
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