Obama Lawyers Defend Health-Care Law at U.S. High Court
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The Obama administration defended the 2010 health-care law and its requirement that people obtain insurance, telling the U.S. Supreme Court that the measure addressed a “crisis in the national health-care market.”
In the first of several rounds of briefs that will be filed before the justices hear arguments in late March, the government argued that Congress could enact the so-called individual mandate under its constitutional authority to regulate interstate commerce.