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If the health care law is struck down, Republicans and conservative activists cannot simply declare "game over" on health care. Liberals will never stop their push toward their eventual goal of creating a Canadian-style single-payer system in which government is the sole purchaser of health care and bureaucrats impose cost controls. Just as they tried again 15 years after the failure of … [Read more...] about Philip Klein: GOP needs to seize the moment on health care

Rather amazingly, President Obama stood at a podium between Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper and Mexican president Felipe Calderon on Monday and declared that it would be “unprecedented” for the Supreme Court to strike down “a law that was passed by a strong majority” of Congress. The law that Obama had in mind, of course, is Obamacare — which was passed by employing the “Cornhusker … [Read more...] about Jeffrey Anderson: Obama: Striking Down an Act of Congress Would Be ‘Unprecedented’

After oral arguments before the Supreme Court this week, the odds that the Court will strike the individual mandate rose sharply; Intrade markets after the hearings showed bettors thought there was a 62 percent chance that the mandate will fall. I can’t tell you whether the law is unconstitutional; I can’t even tell you whether the Supreme Court will uphold it — or, if the mandate goes, what … [Read more...] about Walter Russell Mead: The Health Care Disaster and the Miseries of Blue

Last week, the Supreme Court heard arguments on the constitutionality of the administration's health law, aka ObamaCare. Opponents are giddy with the possibility that the law might be struck down. But what then? Millions of uninsured, both those who choose not to purchase coverage and those who can't due to pre-existing conditions, will still be with us. The rising costs and inefficient … [Read more...] about John Cochrane: What to Do on the Day After ObamaCare

Media coverage now implies that the U.S. Supreme Court will determine the fate of President Obama's health care law. But nothing the court decides will keep the law alive for more than a brief period of time. There are three ways the health care law could meet its end. The first, obviously, is the Supreme Court could declare some or all of it unconstitutional in June. If it gets past that … [Read more...] about Rasmussen Reports: Even If It Survives the Court, the Health Care Law Is Doomed

One of the most fervent promises President Obama made to the American people before passage of the health overhaul law was “If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what.” But, even before the law fully takes effect, millions of people are losing “the coverage they have now,” and tens of millions more surely … [Read more...] about A Radical Restructuring of Health Insurance

This week's historic Supreme Court hearings on President Obama's health-care overhaul will have huge political ramifications. The heart of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the requirement that every American purchase health insurance or pay a penalty. Justice Anthony Kennedy—widely considered the "swing vote" on cases that divide the Supreme Court evenly along ideological … [Read more...] about Karl Rove: ObamaCare and the 2012 Election

Images from the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court on the third day of oral arguments on legal challenges to ObamaCare. View our galleries from Day 1 and Day 2 … [Read more...] about Photo Gallery: SCOTUS Arguments Day Three