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Now that the Supreme Court has upheld the new health care law, it is time to turn our attention to the looming health care cost crisis. Even before the Affordable Care Act (ACA), America spent 16% of its GDP -- twice that of the average OECD country -- on healthcare. Half that spending was by the government.

Geoffrey R. Stone, a University of Chicago Law School professor, called the recent U.S. Supreme Court's health-care ruling troubling because five justices held that President Barack Obama's individual insurance mandate lacks standing under the Commerce Clause.

In an op-ed published seven years ago, shortly after President George W. Bush nominated John Roberts to serve on the Supreme Court, I chided my fellow liberals for threatening to oppose Roberts.

Three days of oral argument over the Affordable Care Act at the Supreme Court made one thing clear: The Court doesn’t feel bound by existing doctrine and practices.

Conservatives insist that their attack on Obama's healthcare reform act is about the loss of fundamental liberties. But a deeper look reveals other motives.

University of Chicago law Professor Randy Picker tries to catalog the many different legal rulings in the Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act (via @FrankPasquale). Click to enlarge:

The Supreme Court’s decision in National Federation of Independent Business v.

The dust has hardly settled on the Supreme Court’s decision over the Affordable Care Act (National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, i.e. NFIB).

The stunner yesterday was that Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., joined by the