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The Justice Department obeyed a federal appeals court's unusual order Thursday in a legal and political spat over the health care law championed by President Barack Obama.

Administration lawyers met their deadline and filed a three-page, single-spaced letter -- following the specific instructions of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is hearing a challenge to the health care law.

The letter affirmed the government's stance that federal courts indeed have the authority to decide the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act -- and any other law Congress passes. Ref. CNN

Healthcare and Obama

Supreme Court Rating Jumps After Taking on Obamacare

Americans view the Supreme Court in more favorable terms after it spent a week taking on the Obamacare law that includes abortion funding and concerns about rationing health care.

"Just before the highly publicized hearing on the constitutionality of President Obama's health care law, ratings for the U.S. Supreme Court had fallen to the lowest level ever measured by Rasmussen Reports. Now, following the hearings, approval of the court is way up," says pollster Scott Rasmussen.

According to a new survey the polling firm released today, 41 percent of likely voters now rate the Supreme Court's performance as good or excellent - up 13 points from 28% in mid-March and it is the court's highest rating in two-and-a-half years. Nineteen percent (19%) still rate the court's work record as poor, unchanged from last month. Ref. Source 3

Obama & Healthcare Health & Special Psychology

How To Keep Healthcare Costs High In One Easy Lesson

America's pharmaceutical companies are still the most innovative in the world, no matter what the naysayers claim. Unfortunately, their innovation seems to reside mostly in their legal and packaging departments, not their R&D departments. Ref. Source 1

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Supreme Court upholds individual mandate in President Obama's health care overhaul

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the individual mandate of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, often referred to as ACA or Obamacare. That means that individuals will be required to buy health insurance or face financial penalties. The court struck down the act's expansion of Medicaid. Ref. Source 4

Healthcare and Obama

Five Dems side with GOP to repeal health care law


Five House Democrats Wednesday bucked their party and voted with Republicans to repeal Obamacare. The vote, 244 to 185 with no Republicans voting against a repeal, was mostly symbolic, given that House Republicans have orchestrated at least 30 prior votes to fully or partially kill or defund the president's health care law. All passing efforts have [...]

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House Votes to Repeal Pro-Abortion, Pro-Rationing Obamacare

The House of Representatives voted today to repeal the Obamacare health care law that fund abortions and prompts concerns about rationed health care.

The House voted 244-184 for repeal (vote breakdown here). Republicans strongly supported repealing the Obamacare bill, voting 239 to 0 to do so, while Democrats strongly opposed repealing the pro-abortion bill, voting 184-5 against repeal.

"ObamaCare takes away from patients the ability to make their own decisions and individual choices. Instead of letting patients and their families work with their doctors to decide the best care, ObamaCare puts Washington in the driver's seat to make health care choices for them and their family. Taking away choice, driving up costs and making health care dramatically more expensive is not the prescription that Americans asked for," House Republican Leader Eric Cantor said during debate. Ref. Source 8

Obama & Healthcare - Page 8

Judge Dismisses Major Lawsuit Against Obama HHS Mandate

A federal judge has dismissed the lawsuit filed by attorneys general of several states against the Obama HHS mandate that requires to religious employers to pay for or refer women for abortion-causing drugs and birth control in violation of their religious liberties.

U.S. District Judge Warren Urbom of Lincoln, Nebraska dismissed the case the state attorney general there filed with several other colleagues from across the nation. he said the states did not have standing in court to bring the lawsuit against the Obamacare HHS mandate. Ref. Source 6

Obama & Healthcare Psychology Special & Health - Page 8

Could a missing word doom a key part of Obamacare


States could dodge a key part of the health care reform law because of a little-noticed mistake in the lengthy bill, according to a white paper by conservative health care experts Michael Cannon and Jonathan Adler. A missing word in the law's definition of a health insurance exchange could prevent the federal government from [...]

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