US healthcare lower after court ruling

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 [...]

President Barack Obama called the Supreme Court's decision to uphold his historic health care overhaul a victory for sick and struggling Americans and vowed a renewed focus on the worry atop voters' minds: the sour economy. "Whatever the politics, today's decision was a victory for people all over this country whose lives will be more [...]

Can a child die before it is born? In Canada it can, and until Friday, this possibility seemed like a strange oxymoron, a legal quirk that emerges from arcane fringes of the Criminal Code, in apparent tension with Canada’s awkwardly permissive pose on abortion.

From a littering ticket to the Supreme Court, via a Heterosexual Family Pride Parade that got him mocked as a closeted gay on the Daily Show, William “Bill” Whatcott of Regina has always been an awkward revolutionary. But when the Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan ruled in 2010 that his anti-gay fliers were not hate speech, as the province’s human rights tribunal had found, but rather a “polemical and impolite” contribution to a matter of public interest, he became the Supreme Court’s modern test case for Canada’s legal approach to hate.

By Tom Lydon: Healthcare stocks and exchange traded funds are facing several headwinds for the rest of 2012. Factors such as lower profitability, European austerity measures, the 2012 U.S. Presidential election and the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision to uphold the healthcare reform law will all affect the sector. S&P Capital IQ said in a research note.

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HALIFAX — The RCMP in Nova Scotia are dismissing a reference in a Supreme Court of Canada decision that says they did not adequately respond to a woman’s calls for help before she tried to hire a hit man to kill the husband she said was abusing her. The case of Nicole Ryan attracted national attention last month when the Supreme Court ordered a stay of proceedings, saying it would be unfair to subject her to a new trial.