Regardless of ObamaCare Decision, SCOTUSblog Has Already Won

SCOTUSblog predicts that the Supreme Court is "80 percent likely" to strike down the federal Defense of Marriage Act, based on oral arguments before the Supreme Court Wednesday morning.

Now that Obamacare has survived at the Supreme Court and the ballot box, proponents and opponents of the law agree it’s here to stay. But Republicans remain committed to botching its implementation, which — along with inherent complexities in implementing parts of the law — leaves in place significant obstacles to achieving its key goals.

The U.S. Supreme Court's chief justice John Roberts shocked the nation when he essentially saved Obamacare in June.

How much extra in federal government spending will the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act cost each American each year from now through 2022?

Predictably, perhaps, the National Automobile Dealers Association weighed in with a protest against this week's U.S. Supreme Court decision to uphold the primary provisions of the Obama Administration's Affordable Care Act. "Although today's ruling by the Supreme Court appears to uphold the majority of the Affordable Care Act, it remains a flawed law," said the ...

In the aftermath of President Obama's re-election, in which the implementation of the Affordable Care Act plays a large role, many states are facing an important decision. Should these states act as agents of the Obama administration, and set up state-based versions of Obamacare's subsidized health insurance exchanges? Or should they say no, leaving implementation of the law in the hands of HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius?

By Suzy Khimm I wrote last week about how the fate of health reform depends on the states, given their starring role in carrying out major parts of the Affordable Care Act. They'll be hugely responsible for setting up the new insurance exchanges -- which have to be running by 2014 -- and enforcing the beefed-up insurance regulations. But there are changes already underway that will give us an early preview of what's to come.