Thought the fight over Obamacare was done? Think again.
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🗓️ 29 March 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post. |
| 0:05.0 | Hi there, is the mayor in Marissa Lang with the Washington Post? |
| 0:09.0 | Hey, it's Dossie, I want to pick your brain on the truck. |
| 0:11.0 | Hi, my name is Janet Johnson. |
| 0:13.0 | Hi. |
| 0:14.0 | This is Post Reports. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Martin Powers. |
| 0:16.0 | It's Friday, March 29th. |
| 0:20.0 | Today, the latest attempt to take down Obamacare, |
| 0:26.0 | learning from past special prosecutor reports on presidential conduct, |
| 0:30.0 | and life imitating art in Ukraine. |
| 0:35.0 | So I would say as someone who's watched the ACA now for eight or nine years, |
| 0:40.0 | the law has proved extremely resilient. |
| 0:44.0 | Paige Cunningham is a health policy reporter for the post. |
| 0:48.0 | She's been on the Affordable Care Act beat covering Obamacare for nearly a decade now. |
| 0:54.0 | You've seen attack after attack, whether through the courts, whether through legislation. |
| 0:59.0 | There was of course the major challenge to its constitutionality back in 2012. |
| 1:04.0 | The question is whether Congress has the constitutional power to enact the individual mandate. |
| 1:08.0 | It survived that for the most part. |
| 1:11.0 | In 2015, there was another major Supreme Court case. |
| 1:14.0 | Case number 14, 114, King versus Burwell. |
| 1:18.0 | There was a challenge to requirement for employers to cover contraception. |
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