Supreme Court could announce today its plans for the health law

News outlets report on some of the key issues and moving parts that will be in play if and when the high court hears pending health law appeals.  

Los Angeles Times: A Buoyed Health Care Law Reaches Supreme Court
After a year and a half of legal skirmishing, President Obama's embattled health care law has arrived at the Supreme Court riding a surprising winning streak and carrying a constitutional stamp of approval from prominent conservative judges. … The Supreme Court is expected to announce as soon as Monday that it will hear the Florida case, the largest and broadest challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Savage and Levey, 11/13).

The New York Times: Supreme Court Memo: Health Law Puts Focus On Limits Of Federal Power
If the federal government can require people to purchase health insurance, what else can it force them to do? More to the point, what can't the government compel citizens to do? Those questions have been the toughest ones for the Obama administration's lawyers to answer in court appearances around the country over the past six months. And they are likely to emerge again if, as expected, the Supreme Court, as early as Monday, agrees to be the final arbiter of the challenge to President Obama's signature health care initiative (Liptak, 11/13).

The Washington Post: The High Court: What Does Supreme Court Decision On Social Security Mean For Health Care Act?
Today, there are unmistakable comparisons to the court's action on the Social Security Act of 1935 as the current justices consider whether to accept a constitutional challenge of the 2010 Affordable Care Act. A decision could come as early as Monday morning (Barnes, 11/13).

Politico Pro: Five Health Reform Fights SCOTUS Won't Settle
The Supreme Court could announce Monday whether and when it will settle -; once and for all -; the question of the constitutionality of the individual mandate in the health care law. But it may not settle anything else. There are plenty of other fights that won't go away regardless of what the court does. Anyone who thinks that the court's decision on the mandate will quell the relentless controversy over the rest of the 2010 health care reform law hasn't been paying attention to the drumbeat of "repeal and replace," along with "defund and delay." Here are five key issues to watch, both as campaign fodder and as legislative and budgetary actions on the Hill: 'The Essential Benefits Package', 'The Independent Payment Advisory Board', 'Affordability', 'Abortion and Birth Control' and 'Should the health law be put on hold?' (Kenen, 11/14).

McClatchy: Supreme Court Prepares To Take On Health Care Law Challenges
Supreme Court justices appear poised to thrust themselves and the Obama administration's signature health care law smack into the middle of the 2012 election. As early as Monday, following a closed-door session last week, the justices will reveal whether they will consider one or more challenges to the law. If they do, as every court watcher expects, the program that opponents call "Obamacare" will dominate both the legal and political docket throughout the election year (Doyle and Lightman, 11/13).