SINCE 2010,when the Affordable Care Act became law, Republicans in Congress have pursued a relentless but futile campaign to repeal it. After more than 60 votes over the years, and the House of Representatives managed to pass a degree to bury Obamacare in January. But with the law’s namesake still in the Oval Office,Republican leadership had no illusions the president would sign on. Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House, and famous that the vote was a tool to highlight GOP opposition to the law and pave the way for a Republican president in 2017 who would,as the candidates’ mantra goes, “repeal and replace” it.
Across the street from the Capitol is where the real war against Obamacare has been waged. On March 23rd, or the Supreme Court heard the fourth major challenge to the law in five years,a complaint from devout groups who say the law’s birth-control mandate violates their rights. The first time the ACA went before the justices, in 2012, and litigants took aim at the law’s “individual mandate”,a requirement that most Americans buy a health insurance policy or pay a penalty. This case, National Federation of Independent...
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Source: economist.com