Today was the first day out of three days worth of Supreme Court arguments putting Obamacare full front and center in a Presidential election year. Everyone and their mom is trying to break down the Super Bowl of Supreme Court decisions…providing context, historical precedent, opinion and the like. This is what we think you need to know about what’s going on with Obamacare and the SCOTUS.
The Economist explains how Obamacare will be judged based off of 4 main questions…and provides details on what the background and arguments on both sides are:
#1 - Question: Does the Anti-Injunction Act prevent the court from deciding this case until 2015? The court has granted 90 minutes for arguments on this topic.
#2 - Question: May Congress mandate the purchase of health insurance and penalise those who fail to obey? The court will spend two hours hearing arguments on this topic.
#3 - Question: If the individual mandate falls, must the rest of the law fall too? The court will devote 90 minutes to this argument.
#4 - Question: Is Congress’s expansion of Medicaid unduly coercive to the states? The court will hear one hour of arguments on this topic.
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