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By The New York Times, Herald-Tribune / Wednesday, May 23, 2012
WASHINGTON The new health care law is already transforming the way care is delivered, and the changes will continue regardless of how the Supreme Court rules on the mandate for most Americans to carry health insurance, a Democratic senator and an Obama administration official said Tuesday.
The comments by the senator, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, and the official, Dr. Richard J. Gilfillan, indicated how Democrats were preparing for a Supreme Court ruling on the 2010 law. The law, which President Barack Obama pushed through Congress on a party-line vote, promises to be a salient issue in elections for the White House and Congress this year.
Whitehouse said there is no link, no link whatsoever, between the insurance mandate and the work of Gilfillans agency, which promotes innovations in Medicare and Medicaid.
The delivery system reforms will survive, and we should not be stalling and dawdling because we are anxious about what the court will do, Whitehouse said at a forum held by the Center for American Progress, a research and advocacy group with close ties to the White House. We dont have that luxury, and I dont think its a genuine risk.
More at: http://health.heraldtribune.com/2012/05/23/is-health-care-reform-here-to-stay/
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)IMO the Individual Mandate only effects costs. It isn't the court's place do decide if the law is affordable. They only get to decide if it is Constitutional or not.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Last edited Thu May 24, 2012, 03:00 AM - Edit history (1)
spanone
(135,919 posts)cbayer
(146,218 posts)be shut at this point.
We are on our way to a single payer system, IMO, no matter what SCOTUS does.