TY  - JOUR
T1  - Remedy and reaction: The peculiar american struggle over health care reform
AU  - Sessions SY
Y1  - 2012/03/21
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2012.308
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 1202
EP  - 1203
VL  - 307
IS  - 11
N2  - 
Shortly before midnight on March 23, 2010, President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law. The landmark health care reform statute had passed only after a protracted and tortuous legislative process, culminating in an unconventional parliamentary maneuver involving a second bill amending the act and approved by Congress 2 days later. This represented the first time major US social legislation had been enacted on a strictly partisan basis. Reaction on this occasion was remarkably swift and dramatic. Within minutes of the President's signing of the act, 13 state attorneys general filed a lawsuit asking that it be declared unconstitutional. These and other challenges leave the ultimate fate of the act in considerable doubt.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.308
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.308
ER  -