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Supreme Court Will Rule This Year on Health Reform Law
By Ariane de Vogue | ABC News
Graphic: bokertov.typepad.com
Plus comments from Congressman John Boehner and Ohio Republican Party Chairman Kevin DeWine
The Supreme Court announced Monday morning that it will hear a
challenge to the Obama administration’s signature legislative
achievement: the health care reform law.
In a paper statement the Court said it would focus on a case brought by
26 states, the National Federation of Independent Business and two
individuals.
The case challenges the constitutionality of the law’s key provision,
the individual mandate, that requires individuals to buy health care
insurance by 2014 or pay a penalty.
A lower court struck down the mandate.
Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr urged the Supreme Court to take
up the case and wrote in briefs that the lower court decision striking
down the mandate was “fundamentally flawed” and “denies Congress the
broad deference it is due in enacting laws to address the Nation’s most
pressing economic problems.”
Verrilli argued that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) addresses “a
profound and enduring crisis in the market for health care that
accounts for more than 17% of the Nation’s gross national product.”
Paul D. Clement, a lawyer for the 26 states challenging the law urged
the Supreme Court in briefs to step in and resolve the “grave
constitutional questions surrounding the ACA”. Clement argued,
“Time is of the essence, States need to know whether they must adapt
their policies to deal with the brave new world ushered in by the ACA.”
Under normal circumstances the court will schedule oral arguments for
the case this spring, and decide the issue by early summer, just months
before the next presidential election.
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Congressman John Boehner...
Decision by Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Health Care Law
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman John Boehner (R-West Chester) released
the following statement today after the Supreme Court announced its
decision to hear a challenge by small businesses and 26 states to the
Obama administration’s job-crushing health care law:
“The American people did not support this law when it was rushed
through Congress and they do not support it now that they’ve seen
what’s in it. In keeping with our Pledge to America, Republicans have
voted to repeal and defund the law, and successfully repealed portions
of it. This government takeover of health care is threatening jobs,
increasing costs, and jeopardizing coverage for millions of Americans,
and I hope the Supreme Court overturns it.”
NOTE: A recent survey by Resurgent Republic found that “a plurality of
Americans opposes the health care reform plan passed last year, and
Independents oppose it by a 20-point margin.” In May, Speaker Boehner
filed an amicus brief in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in support
of the challenge brought by 26 states and the National Federation of
Independent Businesses (NFIB), the nation’s largest small business
association. Repealing the law – which economists call a “barrier to
job growth” – is a key part of the Pledge to America.
Ohio Republican Party Statement on Supreme Court Decision to Hear Obamacare Case:
Columbus - Ohio Republican Party Chairman Kevin DeWine released the
statement below following today’s announcement that the Supreme Court
will hear arguments on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection
and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare):
“Independent studies and Ohio businesses have confirmed what many of us
have known for some time, Obamacare hinders Ohio’s economic recovery by
increasing health insurance premiums and placing job creation in
jeopardy. While Barack Obama may not have been on the ballot last
week in Ohio, his signature legislative achievement was, and 2.2
million Ohioans stood in fervent opposition to the central tenant of
his health care reform effort,” Chairman DeWine said.
“House Speaker John Boehner, Senator Rob Portman, and Republican
members of our congressional delegation deserve credit for fighting to
repeal Obamacare at the federal level. Attorney General Mike
DeWine and Lieutenant Governor Mary Taylor are leading the charge in
Ohio to illustrate the negative impact Obamacare will
have on individual freedom and healthcare costs.
“While it’s encouraging that the Supreme Court will weigh-in on the
constitutionality of Obamacare, Ohio voters should understand that the
only certain action which will lead to repealing and replacing this
job-killing legislation is setting Barack Obama and Sherrod Brown on
the road to an early retirement in 2012,” Chairman DeWine concluded.
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