US election’s galvanising moment approaches

Tuesday was a rough day for the Obama administration in oral arguments in the Supreme Court over mandated insurance. The Illinois Policy Institute comments on What Obama's Lawyers Couldn't Answer. If the government can force you to buy health insurance, what can't they force you to do or buy?

One of the big right wing talking points of late has been that the individual mandate is not constitutional, because the constitution does not specifically say "the federal government may impose an individual mandate for the purposes of insuring all eligible Americans." Happily, whether things are or are not constitutional is the sort of thing Senate staff check out before putting them in bills, and in a floor statement today, Baucus laid out his staff's findings on the subject. His arguments follow the jump.

The results to a new Newsweek/Daily Beast poll, conducted by Douglas E. Schoen, LLC. indicates that both parties face key challenges going forward in the wake of the Supreme Court’s health care ruling last Thursday. A solid majority (58%) of voters see  the Supreme Court decision as a major political win [...]

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, in the case of Florida v. HHS, has ruled that Obamacare's individual mandate is unconstitutional. Contrary to Roger Vinson's lower court ruling, however, the Eleventh upheld the rest of the law.

Small business owners, who have been waiting for the Supreme Court’s decision on Obamacare before hiring and investing, say the ruling raises more questions than it answers.

Today the 11th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals upheld the ruling (PDF) by Judge Roger Vinson that a key part of the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as ObamaCare, is unconstitutional. The ruling concerns the ?individual mandate? section of the bill which requires that everyone who can afford to do so must buy health insurance. ...

The court is in session and has just read it?s first decision of the day. There will be one more decision announced before we get to the healthcare ruling. Here it ??comes?. THE INDIVIDUAL MANDATE SURVIVES AS A TAX! Very Complicated ruling ? still working it out. MEDICAID PROVISION LIMITED BY COURT BUT NOT INVALIDATED. ...

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% of the country’s economy.