The high court’s life-or-death decision
The health reform law’s individual mandate supports essential coverage of pre-existing conditions.
If the Supreme Court strikes down some or all of President Obama’s signature health care reform law, some insurers promise they’ll keep its popular features. If the individual insurance mandate goes, though, the industry will fight to rid the law of its key promise: to insure people with pre-existing conditions.
Without it, America faces a devastating status quo.
June 27, 2012 - 6:11 AM
It’s all reading tea leaves until 10AM, but some veteran court-watchers see Scalia’s unusually vitriolic jab at the president on the Arizona immigration decision as venting frustration with a vote to uphold the PPACA. We’ll see.