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Obama appeals health care setback to high court (AP)

Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, 91, works in his office at the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011. His new book is titled 'Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir,' a personal reflection on the five chief justices he has known.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP – Raising prospects for a major election-year ruling, the Obama administration launched its Supreme Court defense of its landmark health care overhaul Wednesday, appealing what it called a “fundamentally flawed” appeals court decision that declared the law’s central provision unconstitutional.


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Justice Dept wants speedy health care ruling (AP)

Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, 91, works in his office at the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011. His new book is titled 'Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir,' a personal reflection on the five chief justices he has known.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP – The Justice Department is joining calls by states and a business group for prompt Supreme Court review of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul.


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26 states file Supreme Court health care appeal (AP)

AP – The 26 states that have sued to overturn President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul have filed a Supreme Court appeal pressing for a speedy ruling to the “grave constitutional questions” surrounding the law.

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Govt won’t seek appeal in Atlanta on health care (AP)

FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2003, file photo President George W. Bush, surrounded by Congressional leaders, signs into law the most far-reaching changes in Medicare, since its inception nearly 40 years prior, at D.A.R. Constitution Hall in Washington. Deficit hawks note the inconsistency of 2012 Republican presidential candidates who say they'll try to repeal President Barack Obama's health overhaul, but nod to another massive health care entitlement with unfunded future costs of over $7 trillion created by Republicans. With Bush from left are Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, Senate Majority Leader Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., Sen. John Breaux, D-La., House Majority Leader Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, Rep. Bill Thomas, R-Calif., and Rep. Nancy L. Johnson, R-Conn. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)AP – The Obama administration has decided not to ask a federal appeals court in Atlanta for further review of a ruling striking down the centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s sweeping health care overhaul.


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Obama’s health care cuts spread the pain (AP)

President Barack Obama walks from the Oval Office to the the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 19, 2011, to talk about deficit reduction.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP – Health care savings in President Barack Obama’s deficit-reduction plan would squeeze future Medicare recipients, cut payments to drug companies and hospitals, and shift costs to states.


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AP Exclusive: Long-term care plan alarms ignored (AP)

Vice President Joe Biden, right, speaks with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius during a meeting on plans to cut government waste, fraud and abuse, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP – Even as leading Democrats offered assurances to the contrary, government experts repeatedly warned that a new long-term care insurance plan could go belly up, saddling taxpayers with another underfunded benefit program, according to emails disclosed by congressional investigators.


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President Obama wins latest legal battle over health care reform

President Obama won the latest legal battle over his health care reform plan Thursday when a federal appeals court tossed out a lawsuit filed by the state of Virginia.

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