Tagged: U.S. Supreme Court

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Fri March 30, 2012

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Thu March 29, 2012
Shots - Health Blog

Thinking The Unthinkable: What If The Whole Affordable Care Act Goes Down?

After this week's oral arguments at the Supreme Court, lawmakers and health policy experts are starting to ponder what had — until recently — been unthinkable to many: What if the court strikes down the entire Affordable Care Act?

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12:38pm

Thu March 29, 2012
It's All Politics

Democrats Embrace 'ObamaCare' To Defang It

Credit Charles Dharapak / AP

A funny thing happened on the way to the Supreme Court and during the three days the court heard oral arguments on the Affordable Care Act. Democrats embraced the "Obamacare" name the law's foes had used as an epithet for two years to deride the law.

In the political equivalent of what happens in battle when the enemy's captured artillery piece is turned around and the opponent's own shells are fired back at them, Democrats decided to take ownership of a word they once seemed to avoid at all costs.

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