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Victory for America’s Uninsured: Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Affordable Health Care Act

By a narrow margain of 5-to-4 vote, the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Health  Care Act.

News agencies around the country covered the ruling.

The New York Times lead article, plus an educational break-down of the ruling.

Supreme Court documents, including opinons of the court.

CNN posts and updates.

FOX News reaction.

The Wall Street Journal tells what the ruling means for consumers.

Bloggers weighed in, too, such as the Washington Post’s WonkBlog, and Huffington Post linked to some of the funniest tweets on the subject thus far.

Justices who cast the majority votes in favor of the Act were Chief Justice John Roberts, and Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.

Justices Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas dissented.

Kennedy summed up the dissension.  “In our view, the act before us is invalid in its entirety,” he said.

Click here for the law’s key features.

Readers, what are your thoughts about the ruling?

Did the Supreme Court make the correct choice?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Doni Chamberlain

Independent online journalist Doni Chamberlain founded A News Cafe in 2007 with her son, Joe Domke. Chamberlain holds a Bachelor's Degree in journalism from CSU, Chico. She's an award-winning newspaper opinion columnist, feature and food writer recognized by the Associated Press, the California Newspaper Publishers Association and E.W. Scripps. She's been featured and quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, L.A. Times, Slate. Bloomberg News and on CNN, KQED and KPFA. She lives in Redding, California.

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