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US top court upholds Obama's signature healthcare law
Thursday June 28, 2012 10:00:58 PM,
Arun Kumar,
IANS
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Washington: In a
historic verdict, the US Supreme Court Thursday upheld President Barack Obama's signature health care law, handing him a major
victory in the run-up to the November presidential poll.
In a split 5-4 decision, the court upheld the law's central
provision requiring all people to have health insurance beginning
2014 or pay a fine, saying that while people could not be forced
to buy insurance the proposed penalty could be imposed as a tax.
In a surprise majority decision written by conservative Chief
Justice John Roberts, appointed to the top post by Obama's
predecessor George Bush, the court essentially ruled that the
so-called individual mandate was unconstitutional under the
commerce clause, but okay as a tax.
"Our precedent demonstrates that Congress had the power to impose
the exaction in Section 5000A under the taxing power, and that
Section 5000A need not be read to do more than impose a tax. This
is sufficient to sustain it," Roberts wrote.
Obama, who is expected to comment in a couple of hours on the
decision that would give a major boost to his political fortunes
in a tough re-election battle, has defended his health care law as
the way forward for the American people.
"They understand we don't need to re-fight this battle over health
care," he told supporters in Atlanta Tuesday, calling "It's the
right thing to do."
But, his likely Republican rival Mitt Romney told supporters in
Virginia the same day that if the Supreme Court upheld the law,
"Then we'll have to have a president -- and I'm that one -- that's
gonna get rid of Obamacare. We're gonna stop it on day one."
(Arun Kumar can be contacted at arun.kumar@ians.in)
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