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Unprecedented : the constitutional challenge to Obamacare
- Title
- Unprecedented : the constitutional challenge to Obamacare / Josh Blackman.
- Author
- Blackman, Josh.
- Publication
- New York : PublicAffairs, [2013]
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Details
- Description
- xxviii, 322 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- " This inside story of the legal challenge to Obamacare from a conservative constitutional lawyer involved in the movement is a brilliant mixture of legal, political, and media intrigue capped by a truly consequential Supreme Court decision"--
- "On November 13, 2009, Josh Blackman and a group of Federalist Society lawyers gathered in a Washington, DC, hotel to devise a legal challenge to Obamacare. It seemed a very long shot and was dismissively ignored by the White House, much of Congress, and all of the media. Two years later, the fight to overturn the Affordable Care Act had grown fierce and the government's case was tottering. When, finally, the Supreme Court announced its ruling their judgment was so surprising that two cable news channels misunderstood it and announced that the Act had been deemed unconstitutional"--
- Subjects
- HEALTH & FITNESS / Health Care Issues
- Constitutional law > United States
- LAW / Constitutional
- Medical care > Law and legislation > United States
- Health insurance > Law and legislation > United States
- Health care reform > United States
- HISTORY / United States / 21st Century
- Medical care > United States > Cost control
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy
- United States Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
- National health insurance > Law and legislation > United States
- Note
- Includes index.
- Call Number
- JBE 15-519
- ISBN
- 9781610393287
- 1610393287
- LCCN
- 2013010507
- OCLC
- 2013010507
- Author
- Blackman, Josh.
- Title
- Unprecedented : the constitutional challenge to Obamacare / Josh Blackman.
- Publisher
- New York : PublicAffairs, [2013]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JBE 15-519