Romney clarifies his stance on the health care mandate. Erick Erickson, Alice Stewart and Ron Brownstein discuss what this means for the election.
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Filed under: Health Care • Mitt Romney • President Barack Obama |
Mitt Romney is now calling President Obama's health care reform law a tax, and says his Mass. plan was a penalty. We're Keeping Them Honest.
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Filed under: Health Care • Keeping Them Honest • Mitt Romney • President Barack Obama • Supreme Court |
Jeffrey Toobin, Bill Burton and Ari Fleischer discuss the politics of calling the health care law a tax.
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Post by: Ashleigh Banfield Filed under: Health Care • Raw Politics • Supreme Court |
In the debate about the health care law, Republicans call the mandate a tax, while Democrats say it's a penalty. We're Keeping Them Honest.
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Filed under: Health Care • Keeping Them Honest • Supreme Court |
Republicans want to repeal parts of the health care law by using a process requiring 51 percent of the vote in Senate. CNN’s Dana Bash explains.
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Post by: Ashleigh Banfield Filed under: Health Care • Raw Politics • Supreme Court |
Both parties are using talking points to address the health care mandate as a tax, as ruled by the Supreme Court.
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Filed under: Health Care • Keeping Them Honest • Raw Politics • Supreme Court |
The Supreme Court upheld health care mandate as a tax. Was Mitt Romney's mandate in Massachusetts similar? CNN's John King talks with Romney surrogate Barbara Comstock.
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Filed under: Health Care • Mitt Romney |
President Obama said the health care mandate wasn't a tax, but Thursday the Supreme Court upheld the law because it was.
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Filed under: Health Care • President Barack Obama |
Both major campaigns think the Supreme Court's ruling to uphold President Obama's health care law will rally their base.
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Post by: John King Filed under: Health Care |
In a major victory for President Obama, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the controversial health care law known as Obamacare. The justices voted 5-4 that, among other measures, the individual mandate requiring people to have health insurance is valid as a tax, which is within Congress's power.
Chief Justice John Roberts, who was nominated by President George W. Bush, sided with his liberal colleagues.
CNN Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin had anticipated a different ruling. "I was wrong. I thought that argument went very badly. I was very critical of Donald Verrilli," said Toobin. Solicitor General Verrilli made his argument before the Supreme Court in March. Back then, Toobin called his presentation “a train wreck."
"I thought that the argument on the commerce clause was really the core of this case, and all of the conservative justices, including Chief Justice Roberts, and especially Justice Kennedy, were very skeptical about whether the commerce clause was a justification for this law. They voted against the commerce clause, but this taxing power issue really snuck up on us and it certainly snuck up on me," explained Toobin.
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Filed under: Health Care • Supreme Court |
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