Health insurance ruling

• Dont expect the cost of health care to get cheaper as a result of the Supreme Courts decision largely to uphold the Affordable Care Act and its individual insurance mandate.
(Huffington Post)
• The ruling could give the biggest boost to hospitals and health insurers, but drugmakers and biotech companies also will get additional customers because the law requires nearly everyone to have health insurance by 2014 or pay a fine.
(Yahoo Finance)
• Stocks of insurance companies fell and hospital companies rose sharply Thursday after the Supreme Court upheld a requirement that almost all Americans carry health insurance.
(Indianapolis Star)
• Gov. Bobby Jindal: Ironically, the Supreme Court has decided to be far more honest about Obamacare than Obama was. They rightly have called it a tax. Todays decision is a blow to our freedoms.
(nola.com)
• called it a misguided ruling and begrudgingly said they would comply. Snyder said his state would create a health exchange, a largely Web-based program enabling consumers and small business owners to compare insurance prices and benefits and buy coverage.
(USA Today)
• For most small businesses, the courts decision Thursday means a new way for them to shop for less expensive health insurance on state exchanges.
(Yahoo Finance)
• This ruling has made the path forward on health care very highly unpopular with the American people - particularly the mandate to purchase health insurance and other tax hikes.
(AZCentral.com)
• In Florida, where an estimated 4 million residents have no health insurance and millions more have feared losing coverage, the U.S.
(St. Petersburg Times)
• The ruling also handed Obama a campaign-season victory in rejecting arguments that Congress went too far in requiring most Americans to have health insurance. The Obama and Romney campaigns have spent months quietly preparing how they would respond to the ruling.
(msnbc.com)
• The Supreme Court's health-law ruling leaves the door open for major health-insurance changes for working parents, for better and for worse.
(Wall Street Journal)