Projects

The Supreme Court Reviews the Affordable Care Act

In what may be the most momentous Supreme Court case since Bush v. Gore in 2000, the nation's highest court hears arguments this week on President Obama's landmark piece of legislation, the Affordable Care Act. The hearings, which cover three days, will focus on several key points: whether the case can be heard before the penalties for not obtaining health insurance take effect, whether the individual mandate is constitutional, whether the rest of the law can stand without the individual mandate, and whether the law's Medicaid expansion is constitutional.

Follow The Takeaway online and on-air for analysis, explanation, and opinion.

  • President Embraces "ObamaCare"

    Mar 27, 2012
    In this conversation with Kathleen Hall Jamieson, professor of communications and director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, we hear how Democra...
  • Doctors Debate the Individual Mandate

    Mar 27, 2012
    All this week, we're talking about Department of Health and Human Services vs. Florida, the health care case at the Supreme Court. Today the Court will hear arguments on the constitut...
  • Day Two: The Supreme Court and Health Care

    Mar 27, 2012
    Taxes, penalties, and tax penalties. That sums up much of what was discussed at yesterday's Supreme Court hearing on the 2010 health care overhaul bill, also known as the Affordable C...
  • The Economics of Health Care Reform

    Mar 27, 2012
    The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is now in the Supreme Court's hands, but it seems that the health care reforms then-Governor Mitt Romney implemented in Massachusetts will continue to ha...