The Fate of Health-Care Reform

In anticipation of the Supreme Court's historic ruling on the Affordable Care Act tomorrow, we've collected the Prospect's most important pieces about the law and its fate at the Supreme Court.

by The Editors

June 27, 2012

2:15 PM

Ten Reasons American Health Care is So Bad, Ezra Klein (November 2007)
Of all the countries surveyed in a recent poll, Americans were the least likely to report relative satisfaction with their health care. Here are ten major ways our system is failing us.

The Cost of Delayed Reform, Harold Pollack (July 2010)
The temporary federal high-risk pools won't reach most of the medically uninsured.

Is Roberts the Real Swing Vote on the Affordable Care Act?, Adam Serwer (February 2011)
Why the Chief Justice might vote to uphold the ACA.

The Medicare Bind, Paul Starr (September 2011)
Democrats should defend Medicare. But if they want to accomplish much else, they will have to change it.

The Court Will Rule-And Then?, Harold Meyerson (November 2011)
No matter the outcome, a judicial review of the Affordable Care Act can only hurt Democrats.

Will the Supreme Court Overturn Obamacare?, The Monkey Cage (November 2011)
Two political scientists calculate the probabilities.

In Dire Health, Arnold Relman (January 2012)

Despite the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the U.S. medical system is near collapse. What will save it is a single-payer system and physicians in group practice.

The ACA v. the Supreme Court, Garrett Epps (March 2012)

Opponents of the health-care law argue that Congress can only pass laws that anger or benefit everybody.

Now Is the Law of Their Discontent, Garrett Epps (March 2012)
The biggest arguments against the Affordable Care Act exist far more in the political realm than the legal.

After the Affordable Care Act, Paul Waldman (March 2012)
What could happen if the mandate is struck down.

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