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From March 26 - 28, oral arguments on its constitutionality were heard. Contentious issues include:
- mandating all adults have health insurance or be taxed to compensate;
- PPACA's Medicaid expansion provisions;
- whether the Anti-Injunction Act bars courts from reviewing the individual mandate until it's effective in January 2014; and
- "severability:" namely, whether one issue can be struck down while leaving others intact.
Many PPACA provisions took effect. Key ones, including the individual mandate, begin January 2014.
Twenty-six states sued to overturn Obamacare. The Supreme Court heard the Florida case. It included the others as plaintiffs.
A record pro and con 136 amicus briefs ("friends of the court") were filed for Court consideration.
In 2010, Ralph Nader called Obamacare a boon to predatory giants. They profit hugely. Ordinary people lose. Nader called PPACA "a pay-or-die system that's the disgrace of the Western world."
Former CIGNA vice president Wendell Potter said Obamacare shifts costs to consumers, offers inadequate or unaffordable access, forces Americans to pay higher deductibles for less coverage, and ends up scamming them.
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