The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Analyzing the Decisions

As of November 2011, four Circuit Courts have issued opinions on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Constitutionality of the ACA Overview and Predictions Presentation

Topics Covered:

  1. What does PPACA do
  2. Relevant Constitutional provisions
  3. Constitutional challenges
  4. How will Supreme Court rule
  5. Recusal issue
  6. Other challenges

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Will Health Care Reform Cause Employers to Drop their Employee Health Care Plans?

In the wake of the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care Education and Reconciliation Act, several commentators and political observers have suggested that employers will be financially overburdened to the point where they will need to eliminate their employee healthcare plans, thus depriving employees of health coverage and driving up the cost to taxpayers of funding the federally operated insurance exchanges. Several recent events have fueled this speculation:

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