Health Care
WPC's Center for Health Care develops patient-centered solutions to reduce costs and improve the availability and quality of health care for businesses and individuals, providing the only detailed, independent critique of health care issues available in the Northwest.
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Chief Justice Roberts Invites November Referendum on Federal Health Care Law
"The Affordable Care Act is constitutional in part and unconstitutional in part."
With these words, the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court John Roberts, in a 5-4 decision, removed the policy fate of the federal health care law from the hands of judges and placed it squarely in the lap of voters this fall to decide what happens next.
Depending on your perspective, Roberts’ decision was either an example of judicial restraint or, as the four Supreme Court Justices that dissented wrote, "carries verbal wizardry too far, deep into the forbidden land of the sophists."
