Health Care Reform

That was certainly exciting. And scary. And funny. And, I suppose, ultimately tragic all at the same time. Should we really have expected any other kind of ending to the legal drama surrounding the health reform law but one dripping with Shakespearean irony?

President Barack Obama's health care overhaul is on the way to its ultimate jury: the families, doctors, business people and state officials who'll have to grapple with the confusing details while striving to fulfill its promise.

For many brokers the news that the Supreme Court upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act might have been hard to swallow.

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said Thursday the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to uphold the federal health care law represents a huge tax increase that will kill jobs.

Shares of health insurers traded mostly lower Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the 2010 health care overhaul law, although Medicaid coverage providers' stock soared on the news that the ruling preserves a planned expansion of the government program.

The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision upholding the nation's health care law marks an enormous political victory for President Barack Obama in the heat of a re-election campaign, and affirmation as well for the Democrats' decades-long drive to extend coverage to millions of Americans who now go without.