Topic: Barack Obama

The US Supreme Court will hear evidence challenging President Barack Obama's health care reform -- which has come under fire from Republicans -- over three days in March, a spokeswoman said Monday.A ruling against the landmark legislation, The Affordable Care Act, would ...

What Supreme Court ruling could mean for healthcare

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide the fate of President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law in the coming year, charting a course that will have an impact on the 2012 election campaign, the law, the healthcare industry ...

At fundraisers, Obama says 60 percent of promises kept

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - President Barack racked up cash for his re-election campaign at fundraisers in Nevada and California on Monday, declaring that he had kept 60 percent of the promises he made as a candidate in 2008.Obama is in the middle ...
Republicans in the House of Representatives unveiled a bill Thursday that would block funding for President Barack Obama's health care reform as long as it is contested in the courts.The measure targeting the health care reforms passed by Congress in 2010 was ...

Obama asks Supreme Court to rule on health care

President Barack Obama's administration Wednesday asked the US Supreme Court to rule on his landmark health reforms, seeking to halt a flurry of conservative legal assaults on the new law.Health care reform passed in 2010 fulfilled decades of Democratic dreams but was ...
The Obama administration said Tuesday it would not ask a US appeals court to reconsider its finding that part of the landmark health reform bill is unconstitutional.Legal observers said the decision makes it likely that the legal challenge to the health care ...

Obama healthcare law headed for Supreme Court

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Monday cleared the way for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide in its 2011-12 term the president's signature healthcare law that requires Americans to buy insurance or face a penalty.A Justice Department spokeswoman said it ...

Perry says Romney not stark enough contrast to Obama

DES MOINES (Reuters) - Presidential candidate Rick Perry said Republican rival Mitt Romney would not provide a stark enough contrast with President Barack Obama in the 2012 election because of his record on health care policy."Government-mandated, government-run health care - It is ...

US court deals blow to Obama health care law

A US appeals court Friday dealt a new blow to the health care reform law which forms President Barack Obama's proudest domestic achievement, declaring its centerpiece provision unconstitutional.The Eleventh Circuit appeals court, based in Atlanta, ruled that the law's individual mandate, which ...

Analysis: Healthcare ruling and what it means

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An appeals court dealt a blow to President Barack Obama's healthcare law on Friday, leaving a mark on constitutional law, the healthcare industry, U.S. politics and U.S. states.The court ruled as "unconstitutional" the law's requirement that individuals buy health ...
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