Next by are joined katie keith with georgetown university, the center on Health Insurance reform. She is also an adjunct professor of law at the law school at georgetown. Thank you for joining us. Katie thank you for having me. Host here to talk about the latest Supreme Court and the most significant Supreme Court on the Affordable Care act. Give us the shorthand version of legally, how we arrived at this point. Katie to understand this case, we have to go back in time a little bit to 2012 and then 2017. If folks remember back to 2012, that was the first time the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care act. Chief Justice John Roberts held that the individual mandate could not be sustained under the commerce clause, but it could be sustained as a tax. It walks, talks, cracked like attacks. Quacks like a tax. Fastforward to 2017, republicans controlled both chambers of congress. Timespent much of their trying to repeal as much of the Affordable Care act as possible. It led to multiple h
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Are made after winning the fda approval. Linda severe is the first to gain fdarst approval. President trump used it when he had the coronavirus. Lets see sydni joining the fray and this fridays session. Week ofto the last trading. We are seeing pretty modest gains at the start of trading. Under 1 10. The aussie dollar is showing strength. Broaderitting against a drop kiwi stocks are just moderately. Going out to stir up merck conversation as to when they would feel to take a break and negative territories. Markets are looking at that in the early part of next year. The kiwi dollar is holding firm. In terms of what else we are watching, and the japanese markets, we are seeing a pretty lackluster start to trading there. Singapore is expected to drop a little bit later as well. Story,to our top President Trump and joe biden are preparing to face offer a second and final time. Their last debate will be in nashville in a couple of hours. The biden camp is saying that they are repaired for p
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. O a presumed debate october 15 crisis, go to cash. Do you understand we are 3 from a dow record high . Jonathan the narrative has really shifted away from the worries about a contested election, and now the conversation about the potential of a blue wave. No question about it. We like to see more polls coming out. The candidates really migrate to arizona today and tomorrow to come off the messaging from utah. Have you seen the polls for going to be at polls from quinnipiac . A fivepoint lead in iowa for biden. The average right now, 9. 4 points to biden. I feel you, tom. I get it. Everyone else does, too. They are conditioned by the experience of four years ago. That is a conversation with kevin later this morning. Tom again, i look at the markets. The doom and gloom out there, the vix, the volatility at 28, im sorry. Look at the equity recovery and look at corporations adjusting. This breaking ibm news is important. Jonathan after a big acquisition last year of red hat, the restruct