Health law: Senate Judiciary hearing offers preview of possible Supreme Court arguments

Senate Democrats held a hearing Wednesday at which Senators and witnesses debated the constitutionality of the health overhaul.

NPR's Shots blog: Health Law: No Big Deal Or Congressional Overreach?
The U.S. Supreme Court in all likelihood will decide the constitutionality of the nation's 2010 health care law. But on Wednesday morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee got a preview of the arguments that justices will likely hear. Depending on which esteemed legal scholar was weighing in, the Affordable Care Act is either no big deal, constitutionally speaking, or an extraordinary congressional distortion of its powers. Not much in between (Halloran, 2/2).

National Journal: A Constitutional Defense For Health Care
Rattled by a Florida District Court decision striking down their health care expansion and Republican efforts to build repeal momentum from the ruling, Democrats on Wednesday staged a hearing-room defense of the law's constitutionality. They are arguing that it impinges on individual and state rights no more than Social Security and Medicare do (O'Sullivan, 2/2).

CQ HealthBeat: Turmoil Swirls Around Health Care Law As Senators Debate Its Constitutionality
Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee engaged in a congressional version of a law school class on Wednesday as they questioned some of the nation's most prominent law professors and other legal experts on whether the health care law approved in 2010 is constitutional (Norman, 2/2).