Health Care Law

One way the U.S. Congress could respond to Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling on the individual insurance mandate would be to yank the debate over health-care policy back to square one. Simply overturn the law and start from scratch, as the … Continue reading →

By ANNE FLAHERTY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – Republican congressional leaders said Sunday that voters – not the Supreme Court – will have the final word on President Barack Obama’s health care law come November. And they are betting that … Continue reading →

WASHINGTON — With the Supreme Court’s landmark health care ruling in the books, a main Obamacare architect weighed in Sunday on the possibility of its legislative undoing. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) appeared on C-SPAN’s Newsmakers on Sunday …

Chief Justice John Roberts could have taken down President Barack Obama’s entire, massive health care law. He could have prevented the Supreme Court decision that largely disabled the most disputed aspects of Arizona’s crackdown on illegal …

But his health care decision marked a bold return to the Roberts I remember. Roberts couldn’t justify the health care law under the commerce clause of the Constitution, he said. In fact, he tersely and summarily dismissed the idea that … Continue reading →

The Supreme Court decision to uphold the health care law sent almost every business in the state — from Fortune 500 companies to mom and pop dry cleaners — scrambling last week to understand how the law might reshape their … Continue reading →

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, pledged a full repeal of the Affordable Care Act on Sunday, saying that it should be “ripped out by its roots” and that Republicans were unwilling to work with and revise the current law. “This … Continue reading →

It would take just 51 votes to repeal the health care law that is the centerpiece of Barack Obama’s presidency if Republicans controlled Congress and the White House, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said on Sunday. Though the Supreme … Continue reading →

(CBS News) Chief Justice John Roberts initially sided with the Supreme Court’s four conservative justices to strike down the heart of President Obama’s health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act, but later changed his position and formed an …

The Wisconsin governor, who recently survived his recall election, said he is not going to implement the health care law right now. “We’re going to wait. We said all along there was a legal step, there’s a political step and … Continue reading →