Nobody is asking tougher questions these days than Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy, the key swing votes as the U.S. Supreme Court considers whether to pull the plug on ObamaCare.
And no Supreme Court ruling in recent years will do more to answer questions faced by businesses families and the health care industry itself, all trying to work out budgets ”“ in the latter case, with May looming as prime budgeting season for the hospitals for the fiscal years starting each October.
For any readers in a full-body cast the past several months and no Internet access, the Supreme Court is expected to release its decision in late June. Either way it goes, it will get your EKG doing calisthenics.
Not that there”™s any good answer here. If the Affordable Care Act”™s opponents see a future health-care system in the same mess as Medicare, the rest of us are still mindful of a recent past peppered with double-digit percentage increases in health premiums.
It”™s the single-digit difference in the opinions of nine justices that matters now.
“We”™re all waiting to see what the Supreme Court will do,” says Quinton Friesen, COO of Greenwich Hospital. “It”™s very difficult to plan. You don”™t know if you are going left or right.”
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