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Healthcare after the Supreme Court Verdict

Americans who were relying on a U.S. healthcare overhaul to provide them with health insurance heaved a collective sigh of relief after the Supreme Court upheld the law, which aims to extend coverage to more than 30 million uninsured people. www.reuters.com

by Eric Martyn 6/28/2012 5:35:29 PM
by Eric Martyn 6/28/2012 5:36:58 PM
It may be constitutional, but it’s still a bad law, writes columnist Nicholas Wapshott. blogs.reuters.com

by Eric Martyn 6/28/2012 5:39:37 PM
Read the Supreme Court ruling (PDF format) static.reuters.com

by Eric Martyn 6/28/2012 5:40:20 PM
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld President Barack Obama's healthcare law in an election-year triumph for him and fellow Democrats and a stinging setback for Republican opponents. www.reuters.com

by Eric Martyn 6/28/2012 5:41:44 PM
Supreme Court ruling casts doubt on expanding healthcare for the poor reut.rs/M9Hi4s

by michele.gershberg 6/29/2012 2:10:21 PM
Why did Roberts do it? reut.rs

by michele.gershberg 6/29/2012 2:11:05 PM
Roberts as Burkean minimalist nyti.ms/MFMID9

by michele.gershberg 6/29/2012 2:12:21 PM
Here's more market, political and industry reaction to the ruling in.reuters.com #SCOTUSForum

by lewis.krauskopf 6/29/2012 2:17:07 PM
How the Affordable Care Act will affect scientific research: the-scientist.com

by lewis.krauskopf 6/29/2012 2:27:37 PM
More response from across the spectrum to yesterday's ruling: www.healthjournalism.org

by lewis.krauskopf 6/29/2012 2:35:56 PM
Harvard panel on the court's health law ruling starting in about a minute. Follow here: live.reuters.com #SCOTUSForum

by lewis.krauskopf 6/29/2012 2:59:51 PM
Blendon says we're only just beginning -- election is the next step

by lewis.krauskopf 6/29/2012 3:05:24 PM
Tweeting now from our panel event at Harvard School of Public Health #SCOTUSForum

by michele.gershberg 6/29/2012 3:05:41 PM
Repeal will pass in House, fail in Senate, Blendon says

by lewis.krauskopf 6/29/2012 3:05:54 PM
HSPH's Blendon says court decision should be the end of the issue, but it is actually just the beginning of the next phase of our healthcare
fight

by michele.gershberg 6/29/2012 3:06:35 PM
Romney won't discuss content of healthcare, will just link it to the economy, Blendon says #SCOTUSForum

by lewis.krauskopf 6/29/2012 3:06:49 PM
GOP has moved away form commitment to universal healthcare, McDonough says #SCOTUSForum

by lewis.krauskopf 6/29/2012 3:08:33 PM
Most constitutional professors were "dead wrong" on the ruling, BU's Mariner says

by lewis.krauskopf 6/29/2012 3:09:27 PM
Wendy Mariner: The decision strongly laid out limits to federal powers under the Commerce Clause. Medicaid decision was shocking #SCOTUSForum

by michele.gershberg 6/29/2012 3:09:53 PM
Court's analysis of Medicaid was "shocking" says BU law professor Mariner #SCOTUSForum

by lewis.krauskopf 6/29/2012 3:10:31 PM
Mariner: Roberts' opinion showed his view that expanded Medicaid essentially constituted a new act, not a provision

by michele.gershberg 6/29/2012 3:11:02 PM
Government can't force you to buy insurance but can tax you if you don't, is how ruling shakes out-Mariner #SCOTUSForum

by lewis.krauskopf 6/29/2012 3:12:12 PM
HSPH's John McDonough: Many states will say they don't want to be part of Medicaid expansion at all, even though it is an excellent deal for them. But we won't really know their decision until after Nov vote

by michele.gershberg 6/29/2012 3:13:03 PM
Harvard's Herzlinger says don't have a lot of data on whether penalties work. Swiss penalties dwarf US ones. #SCOTUSForum

by lewis.krauskopf 6/29/2012 3:15:08 PM
Harvard Business School's Regina Herzlinger: Not enough data on whether the U.S. penalty for not buying insurance will be effective

by michele.gershberg 6/29/2012 3:15:16 PM
McDonough: Massachusetts model shows it can work, as high healthcare enrollment proves

by michele.gershberg 6/29/2012 3:15:50 PM
Herzlinger rebuts that MA is the third wealthiest in the nation, so what happens there is not a real model for many less fortunate states

by michele.gershberg 6/29/2012 3:16:45 PM
Mass. is 3rd wealthiest US state, so not great example for poor states as far as insurance, Herzlinger says #SCOTUSForum

by lewis.krauskopf 6/29/2012 3:17:11 PM
Mariner says history shows no one will take healthcare cost control seriously until everyone is in the system #SCOTUSForum

by lewis.krauskopf 6/29/2012 3:19:16 PM
Employers' natural distrust of government may prevent them from dumping workers into exchanges, Blendon says #SCOTUSForum

by lewis.krauskopf 6/29/2012 3:21:56 PM
Blendon: Common wisdom is that employers would want to dump workers onto state insurance exchanges, but they aren't as likely to do so until they see the program works

by michele.gershberg 6/29/2012 3:22:32 PM
At same time, Herzlinger says, employers don't love dealing with health benefits #SCOTUSForum

by lewis.krauskopf 6/29/2012 3:23:18 PM
Herzlinger: Law shakes out positively for health insurers, is "fantastic" for providers #SCOTUSForum

by lewis.krauskopf 6/29/2012 3:24:59 PM
Herzlinger: The law is great for nearly every participant in healthcare sector, from insurers, medical technology and more, even if the stock market hasn't reflected it

by michele.gershberg 6/29/2012 3:25:07 PM
Question from audience: Medicaid ruling could squeeze some folks who need it into the exchanges, does that privatize Medicaid?

by michele.gershberg 6/29/2012 3:26:37 PM
McDonough: Unless the federal statute is rewritten, folks who are in the middle between new Medicaid definition and a state that refuses expansion will be out in the cold

by michele.gershberg 6/29/2012 3:27:48 PM
If states reject Medicaid expansion, the very poor (under 100% of poverty level) will be "out in the cold", Harvard's McDonough says

by lewis.krauskopf 6/29/2012 3:27:55 PM
McDonough: Thats a huge number of the neediest folks in our society

by michele.gershberg 6/29/2012 3:28:12 PM
Mariner: In the short run, it's politically expedient for some states not to take the Medicaid deal #SCOTUSForum

by michele.gershberg 6/29/2012 3:29:13 PM
Panel takeaway: Most problematic part of ruling may be the Medicaid decision, which had been thought to be most benign #SCOTUSForum

by lewis.krauskopf 6/29/2012 3:29:44 PM
Question: Did Roberts essentially help the Republicans with the Commerce Clause decision and defining the mandate as a tax?

by michele.gershberg 6/29/2012 3:30:32 PM
Mariner: It was gratuitous to make the argument about the Commerce Clause and it's a question whether that was the "original" decision of the majority

by michele.gershberg 6/29/2012 3:31:24 PM
Mariner: Maybe he did not want to be the Chief Justice who struck down the most important social legislation since 1965? But it reads od
dly

by michele.gershberg 6/29/2012 3:32:03 PM
Mariner: Could be simply that Roberts did not want to be the chief justice who struck down the most significant social legislation since 1965

by lewis.krauskopf 6/29/2012 3:32:25 PM

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