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Supreme Court Will Rule This Year on Health Reform Law
By Ariane de Vogue | ABC News

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Plus comments from Congressman John Boehner and Ohio Republican Party Chairman Kevin DeWine

The Supreme Court announced Monday morning that it will hear a challenge to the Obama administration’s signature legislative achievement: the health care reform law.

In a paper statement the Court said it would focus on a case brought by 26 states, the National Federation of Independent Business and two individuals.

The case challenges the constitutionality of the law’s key provision, the individual mandate, that requires individuals to buy health care insurance by 2014 or pay a penalty.

A lower court struck down the mandate.

Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr urged the Supreme Court to take up the case and wrote in briefs that the lower court decision striking down the mandate was “fundamentally flawed” and “denies Congress the broad deference it is due in enacting laws to address the Nation’s most pressing economic problems.”

Verrilli argued that the Affordable Care Act (ACA)  addresses “a profound and enduring crisis in the market for health care that accounts for more than 17% of the Nation’s gross national product.”

Paul D. Clement, a lawyer for the 26 states challenging the law urged the Supreme Court in briefs to step in and resolve the “grave constitutional questions surrounding the ACA”.  Clement argued, “Time is of the essence, States need to know whether they must adapt their policies to deal with the brave new world ushered in by the ACA.”

Under normal circumstances the court will schedule oral arguments for the case this spring, and decide the issue by early summer, just months before the next presidential election.

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Congressman John Boehner...
Decision by Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Health Care Law

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman John Boehner (R-West Chester) released the following statement today after the Supreme Court announced its decision to hear a challenge by small businesses and 26 states to the Obama administration’s job-crushing health care law:

“The American people did not support this law when it was rushed through Congress and they do not support it now that they’ve seen what’s in it. In keeping with our Pledge to America, Republicans have voted to repeal and defund the law, and successfully repealed portions of it. This government takeover of health care is threatening jobs, increasing costs, and jeopardizing coverage for millions of Americans, and I hope the Supreme Court overturns it.”

NOTE: A recent survey by Resurgent Republic found that “a plurality of Americans opposes the health care reform plan passed last year, and Independents oppose it by a 20-point margin.” In May, Speaker Boehner filed an amicus brief in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in support of the challenge brought by 26 states and the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB), the nation’s largest small business association. Repealing the law – which economists call a “barrier to job growth” – is a key part of the Pledge to America.

Ohio Republican Party Statement on Supreme Court Decision to Hear Obamacare Case:

Columbus - Ohio Republican Party Chairman Kevin DeWine released the statement below following today’s announcement that the Supreme Court will hear arguments on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare):

“Independent studies and Ohio businesses have confirmed what many of us have known for some time, Obamacare hinders Ohio’s economic recovery by increasing health insurance premiums and placing job creation in jeopardy.  While Barack Obama may not have been on the ballot last week in Ohio, his signature legislative achievement was, and 2.2 million Ohioans stood in fervent opposition to the central tenant of his health care reform effort,” Chairman DeWine said.

“House Speaker John Boehner, Senator Rob Portman, and Republican members of our congressional delegation deserve credit for fighting to repeal Obamacare at the federal level.  Attorney General Mike DeWine and Lieutenant Governor Mary Taylor are leading the charge in Ohio to illustrate the negative impact Obamacare will
 have on individual freedom and healthcare costs.

“While it’s encouraging that the Supreme Court will weigh-in on the constitutionality of Obamacare, Ohio voters should understand that the only certain action which will lead to repealing and replacing this job-killing legislation is setting Barack Obama and Sherrod Brown on the road to an early retirement in 2012,” Chairman DeWine concluded.


 
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