Washington, 30 mar ( EFE).-the U.S. President, Barack Obama , today defended its reform health as an example of the “change” that he promised before arriving at the White House, but kept silence about the hearings of this week in the Supreme Court to determine the constitutionality of the law.
“Change is health care reform that we adopted after more than one century of attempts,” said Obama during a rally before hundreds of supporters at the University of Vermont, Burlington.
Such reform, passed by Congress and promulgated by Obama in 2010, ensures that in the U.S. “nobody will go to the bankruptcy to be sick,” emphasized President, electoral tour today in the States of Vermont and Maine with a view to the elections on November 6.
Also remarked that “some 2.5 million young people now have health insurance” and that “millions of older Americans are paying less for their medicines”.
However, Obama not made no reference to the hearings held between Monday and Wednesday in the Supreme on the constitutionality of its reform, called the affordable health care Act.
26 States, most Republicans, have filed lawsuits against the law, the greatest achievement of the mandate of Obama and the most maligned by the opposition.
Hearings this week demonstrated that the Division of views within the Supreme, where five of the judges were appointed by Republican presidents and the remaining four by Democrats, might endanger part or all of the reform, the largest health system in half a century.
The most controversial point of the law is which requires that all persons in the United States have a health insurance from 2014 or pay a fine for not having.
For the Republicans that clause goes against the Constitution, and its objective is therefore the Supreme issue a ruling of unconstitutionality on the law or, in their absence, any of its parts.
The Government, for its part, relies on known as the Commerce clause, contained in the Magna Carta and that it gives Congress capacity to regulate commercial activity abroad and among the States of the country.
The dilemma is the interpretation of that clause, as opponents of reform argue that the Constitution gives Congress power to regulate trade, but not to “force” people to enter in this trade, in this case through the recruitment of health insurance.
The Supreme expected to issue its ruling in June and an opinion against the constitutionality of the law would be a hard blow for Obama in the face of their re-election options in November.
The White House has been entrusted in that reform will be endorsed by the Supreme and has insisted that it has no “plan B”.
