Q&A: Obama health law faces Supreme Court judgement
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<paragraph>The US Supreme Court is due to decide this week whether President Barack Obama's signature Affordable Healthcare Act is constitutional. What's at stake?</paragraph>
- Who's uninsured?
- Nearly 50 million, or 16.3% of Americans are uninsured
- By ethnicity, the rate of those who lack insurance is
- 15.4% White
- 20.8% Black
- 18.1% Asian
- 30.7% Hispanic
- Source: US Census Bureau
<paragraph>What issues will the court decide?</paragraph>
<paragraph>How could the court rule and what would be the fallout?</paragraph>
Democrats say the only path to universal healthcare was an insurance purchase requirement
<paragraph>What will be the fallout?</paragraph>
- By 1960, in GDP terms, American spending on health was
- 5%
- By 2010 it was
- 18%
- Medicare was
- 4%
- and Medicaid was
- 3%