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Lady Freedom Returns Donating Member (169 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-11 03:08 PM
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Supreme Court to hear dispute on health care law
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/judicial/story/2011-11-14/supreme-court-health-care/51194696/1

By Joan Biskupic, USA TODAY

"WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will hear a dispute testing the constitutionality of the Obama-sponsored health care overhaul, a move that opens the most important chapter in the legal battle over the law.

The leading question before the justices is whether in requiring most Americans to buy insurance, Congress exceeded its power to regulate interstate commerce.

The case is on track to be heard by March, and a ruling would come by the end of June, just before the Republican and Democratic conventions for the 2012 presidential election. The law known as the Affordable Care Act, intended to extend medical care nationwide, is the centerpiece of the Obama domestic agenda, and all major GOP presidential candidates oppose it."

So when it comes down that it does not effect peoples rights, will the repukes shut up? DU's Lounge thoughts on this are...?
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