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Governors who haven’t decided whether to expand Medicaid to more low-income Americans, a key provision of President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul, said the program may wring too much money from their states.
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WellPoint Inc.’s $4.9 billion deal for Amerigroup Corp. is a bet that health insurers can profit from Medicaid coverage for the poor even after the U.S. Supreme Court put the program’s future growth up in the air.
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If investors expect President Barack Obama’s health-care reform law to freeze the American economy, they’re not showing it in the stock market.
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The Supreme Court decision upholding President Barack Obama’s health-care law has drawn attention for limiting Congress’s authority over interstate commerce, yet constitutional scholars say its biggest impact may be a curb on lawmakers’ ability to alter state Medicaid funding.
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House Speaker John Boehner vowed to repeal President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul in full, even as he described some conditions in the law as “sound.”
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The most important U.S. Supreme Court decision during a president’s re-election campaign may not have fundamentally changed the dynamics of the 2012 race.
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While the White House counts on the court upholding a law extending health insurance to millions of Americans, a favorable ruling offers Republicans a pointed campaign message for November: Remove Obama, repeal the law.
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A win for President Barack Obama at
the U.S. Supreme Court, weighing the constitutionality of the
health-care law that stands as his chief domestic achievement,
could also set back his re-election bid.
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The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the core of President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul, giving him an election-year triumph and preserving most of a law that would expand insurance to millions of people and transform an industry that makes up 18 percent of the nation’s economy.
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Tenet Healthcare Corp. (THC) led hospitals and Medicaid insurers higher while commercial health plans led by WellPoint Inc. (WLP) fell after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld most of President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul.
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The outcome of a 100-year fight for U.S. national health care rests on the verdict today of nine justices, who will emerge from behind a red velvet curtain.
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Whichever way the Supreme Court rules on the health-care law tomorrow, Mitt Romney is preparing to claim victory.
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The U.S. Supreme Court said it will decide whether states can block antitrust scrutiny of hospital mergers such as Phoebe Putney Health System Inc.’s acquisition of Palmyra Park Hospital in Georgia.
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The U.S. Supreme Court didn’t rule on President Barack Obama’s health-care law today, pushing the decision to June 28, when the justices plan to complete their nine-month term.
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The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to rule this week on President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul, a law that would extend insurance to at least 30 million Americans and reshape an industry that makes up about 18 percent of the country’s economy.
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The U.S. Supreme Court should uphold a law requiring most Americans to have health insurance if the justices follow legal precedent, according to 19 of 21 constitutional law professors who ventured an opinion on the most-anticipated ruling in years.
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The U.S. Supreme Court didn’t rule on President Barack Obama’s health-care law today, pushing the decision into next week, when the justices are scheduled to complete their nine-month term.
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Republicans have pledged to “repeal and replace” President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul. If the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the law, they may struggle to deliver on the second part of their vow.
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House Speaker John Boehner said the Republican-led chamber will move to repeal President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul law if the U.S. Supreme Court doesn’t strike it down.
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In the next two weeks, John Roberts will sit in his high-backed, black leather chair in the U.S. Supreme Court’s marble courtroom and tell a hushed crowd that the justices are about to rule on health care.
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Barack Obama’s political fortunes may hang on the U.S. Supreme Court’s view of his health-care law. For Joy Waldon, the stakes add up to a quarter of her paycheck and some peace of mind.
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Anthony Kennedy has cast pivotal votes at the U.S. Supreme Court on terrorism, school integration, clean water, the death penalty, gun rights, abortion and campaign finance. Health care may be next.
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President Barack Obama said he is confident the U.S. Supreme Court won’t strike down the 2010 health-care law, saying it would be “judicial activism” to overturn the statute that requires Americans to have insurance.
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A Republican Party Internet advertisement altered the audio of U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments in an attack on President Barack Obama’s health-care law.
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Of all the arguments being waged over the Affordable Care Act -- or, as the Obama campaign now likes to refer to it, “Obamacare” -- the one dominating the Supreme Court this week is perhaps the most conceptually trivial.
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U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts will probably ask each of his eight Supreme Court colleagues gathered in an oak-paneled room tomorrow where they stand on the law that would expand health insurance to at least 30 million Americans and affect one-sixth of the economy.
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The U.S. Supreme Court’s pending ruling on the health-care law will put a rare judicial stamp of repudiation or endorsement on an incumbent president’s most prominent achievement just as he faces re-election.
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This year’s debate over the future of Medicare comes down to who wields the knife.
Both political parties are proposing to cut the $500 billion-a-year health-care program for the elderly. They disagree as to how.
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U.S. Supreme Court justices indicated they may throw out other parts of President Barack Obama’s health-care law if they strike down its core requirement that Americans get insurance.
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The cost to protect against losses on the debt of U.S. health-care companies is rising as investors hedge against potential declines when the U.S. Supreme Court rules on President Barack Obama’s landmark health law.
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Broccoli, the nutrient-rich vegetable derided by President George H.W. Bush two decades ago, found respect at the U.S. Supreme Court (1000L) during debate on the federal health-care law.
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The U.S. Supreme Court today will consider how much of President Barack Obama’s health-care law must be thrown out if the justices decide Congress can’t require Americans to buy medical insurance.
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Republicans and Democrats in Congress said they saw signs of eventual victory as the U.S. Supreme Court (1000L) finished the second of three days of arguments on the health-care overhaul that cleared Congress on party lines.
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U.S. Supreme Court justices hinted they may strike down a requirement that Americans obtain insurance on their second day hearing arguments over President Barack Obama’s health-care law. Questions from justices indicated they might split 5-4 with the court’s five Republican appointees joining together to oppose the measure.
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Hundreds of protesters carrying “Don’t Tread on Me” flags and shouting “Freedom” rallied near the U.S. Supreme Court against the Obama administration’s health-care overhaul, while inside a majority of the justices challenged the constitutionality of the law’s keystone provision.
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Some U.S. Supreme Court justices questioned the constitutionality of the requirement under President Barack Obama’s health-care law that Americans get insurance or pay a penalty.
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The Obama administration today will defend a requirement that Americans obtain insurance or pay a penalty -- the core of the president’s health care overhaul --in a Supreme Court case central to the Republican campaign to take over the White House.
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The U.S. Supreme Court opens today its historic review of President Barack Obama’s health- care law, three days of arguments that might result in the president’s premier legislative achievement being found unconstitutional in the middle of his re-election campaign.