The Law That Almost Wasn’t: Affordable Care Act and the Supreme Court
This article was originally published in RPM Report
Executive Summary
The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act came as a surprise to most legal experts. But as Jeffrey Toobin writes in his new book on the Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts saved the high court’s reputation – and his own – by allowing the majority of President Obama’s health care law to remain intact.