Health care reform tops Supreme Court docket

[Playinghardball]

Source: Raw Story

WASHINGTON — Profanity on television, police use of GPS without a warrant, and the status of Jerusalem on passports are grist for the new US Supreme Court session opening Monday, but the main event will be President Barack Obama’s landmark health care reform.

The nine justices on the highest court in the land already have 50 cases on the table for the new session, which runs until the end of June 2012.

The court has dealt with up to 75 cases in past sessions, so the extra space could be interpreted as leaving extra room to tackle the sweeping health care reform that Obama championed and signed into law in early 2010.


Ilya Shapiro, an expert on the court at the libertarian Cato Institute, in Washington, described health care as “the so-called elephant in the room,” overshadowing all other cases.

More: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/02/health-care-reform-tops-supreme-court-docket/

[dtotire]

1. If It Is Overturned

The Congress would have to pass Medicare for everyone. That has been declared constitutional.

[girl gone mad]

3. It's a corporatist court.

Odds are good that they will allow government enforced looting by private insurance companies.

[lumberjack_jeff]

4. "have to"?

Lack of affordable health care is not a problem for them, personally.

[Puregonzo1188]

2. "the status of Jerusalem on passports" Wait, what?

I know people born in Jerusalem have their passports stamped only with the city name, not Israel/OPT, but what is this case? Who is brining it and what legal arguments are there against this?