{"id":30122,"date":"2012-06-28T15:40:02","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T19:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?post_type=news&#038;p=30122"},"modified":"2012-07-09T13:36:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T17:36:09","slug":"u-s-supreme-court-upholds-most-of-healthcare-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2012\/06\/28\/u-s-supreme-court-upholds-most-of-healthcare-law\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Most of Healthcare Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/11pdf\/11-393c3a2.pdf\">U.S. Supreme Court upheld the majority of the Affordable Care Act<\/a> in a 5-4 decision on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>With Chief Justice John Roberts writing the majority opinion, the court upheld the central component of the law &#8212; the individual mandate &#8212; which requires that most Americans have health insurance or pay a penalty. The court determined that the law was constitutional based on Congress&#8217;s power to tax, but not its power to regulate interstate commerce.<\/p>\n<p>The decision should allow most of the law&#8217;s more expansive changes to proceed, the bulk of which are scheduled to take effect in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the law that expanded Medicaid by threatening noncooperating states with cuts to their Medicaid funding was struck down.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/29\/us\/supreme-court-lets-health-law-largely-stand.html\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a> story and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthcare.gov\/law\/timeline\/\">timeline for the Affordable Care Act&#8217;s provisions<\/a>.<\/p>\nSorry, there are no polls available at the moment.\n<h6>The poll is now closed.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the majority of the Affordable Care Act in a 5-4 decision on Thursday. With Chief Justice John Roberts writing the majority opinion, the court upheld the central component of the law &#8212; the individual mandate &#8212; which requires that most Americans have health insurance or pay a penalty. The court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}