Healthcare professionals expected this move, but it is still ever so welcome.

The landmark legislation which was bullied through by Senate Majority leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in 2010, has been trumped as a giant step forward for America by President Obama and the Democrat leaders.  The rest of the Party has been more worried about the ramifications of burying taxpayers in at least another ONE TRILLION dollars in debt.  The political ramifications of the Supreme Court’s participation in this giant political issue, is that the Court will likely rule on the matter in the heat of the 2012 presidential Primary season.

Fox News reports:

The challenge in the case, brought by 26 states out of Florida, is based on the constitutionality of the individual mandate in the law, which requires that all Americans purchase health insurance.

The nine-member court will also look at “serviceability”, meaning if the mandate falls, could the rest of the law survive since it is primarily built on the revenues collected by forcing people to buy care.

The court is also folding in an additional case on the tax implications of the law.

The case is one that all sides want heard. Striking down the law “denies Congress the broad deference it is due in enacting laws to address the nation’s most pressing economic problems,” Solicitor General Donald Verrelli wrote in his filing asking the high court to hear the appeal.

But hearing the case this session — arguments could come in March — means that a ruling will come in June — in the heat of the 2012 election cycle.

Some argue that a defeat for Obama would be as beneficial as a victory since it would take away an economic and philosophical argument that Republicans have used to bash the law that will impact roughly 18 percent of the nation’s annual gross domestic product.

If the mandate is wiped off the map but the law itself isn’t, the president would also be able to promote aspects that most Americans say they accept, including leaving 26 year olds on their parents insurance and not allowing insurers to reject clients with pre-existing conditions.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/11/14/supreme-court-to-hear-challenge-to-obama-health-care-law/

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Filed under: Economy, Featured, Inside The KC, Politics by Sonja Eddings Brown, Nov 14, 2011