The Republican takeover of the House and Senate means Obamacare is back in the news again.
On Friday, House Republicans filed a lawsuit against the Obama Administration, calling some of its actions on Obamacare unconstitutional. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court gets ready to rule on yet another provision of the Affordable Care Act.
This hour, we step back and ask what’s working, and what isn’t working in Obamacare. We explore these legal challenges and find out what might be changing.
GUESTS:
- Jeff Cohen - Covers Health care for WNPR and NPR
- Deb Polun - Director of Government Affairs and Media Relations for Community Health Center Association of Connecticut
- Abbe Gluck - Professor of Law at Yale Law School
- Linda Greenhouse - Senior Research Scholar in Law, the Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence, and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School
- James Capretta - Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, who researches market-based alternatives to the Affordable Care Act
- James Wadleigh - Acting Chief Executive Officer of Access Health CT
John Dankosky, Lydia Brown, and Chion Wolf contributed to this show.