Healthcare law addresses a key dysfunction, but many tasks remain
Thursday, June 28, 2012 - 18:30
in Psychology & Sociology
Although the Supreme Court has upheld healthcare reform, there's still a lot of hard work to be done to communicate the law's benefits and to make the American way of healthcare less dysfunctional.The Supreme Court's lengthy decision upholding healthcare reform contains enough intricate twists and turns to fuel reams of law review analyses. But the majority opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts upholding the law's core provision, the mandate that individuals pay a tax if they lack a health policy, should clear away one major obstacle to public acceptance of the reform: doubt about its constitutionality.