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POLL: Should the Supreme Court Overturn Obamaβs Health Care Law?
The country's highest court is set to rule Thursday on the Affordable Care Act.

Itβs an epic decision that could change the way health care is approached in the United States.
The Supreme Court is scheduled to decide Thursday, according to Huffington Post,Β on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, signed into law March 23, 2010.
The Supreme Courtβs decision will include a ruling on the constitutionality of the law's βindividual mandateβ requiring all U.S. citizens to buy health insurance.
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Opponents of the mandate say itβs an unprecedented exercise of congressional powerβrequiring people to buy somethingβand could be expanded to cars to help the auto industry, or even broccoli.
Obama has argued that the commerce clause in the Constitution allows Congress to regulate health care, and that expanding coverage would lower costs, according to the Economist, which summarizes both the supporting and opposing arguments to the issues that have been debated at the high court.Β
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In Maryland, about 750,000 people were uninsured between 2009 and 2010, according to Linda Bartnyska, chief of cost and quality analysis at the Maryland Health Care Commission.
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