Healthcare Reform Mandate Survives Supreme Court; Bill Largely Upheld

The U.S. Supreme Court Thursday upheld, in large part, President Obama’s healthcare reform bill (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).

Read the official decision (warning: very long and lawyery).

Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the more liberal justices in the case, which came down as a 5-4 majority decision. Roberts wrote the opinion for the majority. Justice Kennedy wrote for the dissent, beginning his brief, “In our view, the entire Act before us is invalid in its entirety.”

Here’s a little snippet from the exceptional @SCOTUSblog on this morning’s developments:

Most of the provisions of the bill were declared Constitutional. But a new rule that would strike funding from states refusing to participate in an expansion of Medicaid was thrown out. The Court ruled that the Medicaid expansion was legal, but that denying funds to states was not.

Much more on the impact of this decision in coming days here at insidePatientFinance.com and insideARM.com. Follow insidePatientFinance on Twitter @insidePF.