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A 2005 Supreme Court ruling citing the authority to regulate commerce poses a problem for suits claiming it's unconstitutional for the federal government to force individuals to have insurance.

Lawsuits from 14 states challenging the constitutionality of the new national healthcare law face an uphill battle, largely due to a far-reaching Supreme Court ruling in 2005 that upheld federal restrictions on home-grown marijuana in California.

President Barack Obama dared Republicans on Thursday to try to repeal his newly signed healthcare reform but warned that their effort would backfire as he touted the measure's benefits.

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Two minor violations of reconciliation rules will force the Senate to change the bill and ship it back to the House for final passage.

Lawmakers have received death threats and been victims of vandalism after voting in favor of the health care bill.

President Barack Obama plans to sign an executive order Wednesday reaffirming long-standing restrictions on federal funding of abortion....

Officials from 14 states have gone to court to block the historic overhaul of the U.S. health care system that President Obama signed into law Tuesday.

On his radio show today Rush Limbaugh backed out of his promise to leave the country and move to Costa Rica if health care reform passed.

With the strokes of 20 pens, President Obama signed his health care overhaul — the most sweeping social legislation enacted in decades — into law on Tuesday during a festive, at times raucous, White House ceremony.

There were more winners than losers on Wall Street on the first trading day after the landmark health care bill was passed by ...

President Obama scheduled a Tuesday White House signing ceremony for landmark health-care legislation that passed the House on Sunday, as Democrats and Republicans began shifting their focus to November elections that seem certain to become a referendum on the most significant social legislation enacted in half a century.