you more just because you are a woman. they won t be able to bill you into bankruptcy. if you are sick, you will finally have the same chance to get quality, affordable healthcare as everyone else. shepard: today s supreme court decision on healthcare was a pivotal victory for the president. it s too soon to know whether this will help or hurt him when voters go to the polls in november. team fox coverage continues now. ed henry live at the white house. interesting that he, like we, thought probably that this thing had gone down. how did he react when he got the misinformation? well, from what i m told by senior officials here, the president looked sort of puzzled at first as he saw the initial report suggesting that his baby here, this signature domestic achievement was going down in flames. as you noted, his top lawyer though catherine romler got a couple interesting reports. spoke to another administration lawyer on the scene at the supreme court who said wait, there is more her
shepard: judge andrew napolitano outside the supreme court. judge, as all, thank you. the first push for national health insurance began a full century ago. and even though the supreme court has now ruled on the matter, the debate that s divided this country for decades is nowhere near over. team fox coverage continues with the chief fox report correspondent jonathan hunt outside saint luke s roosevelt hospital here in new york city to give us a bit of historical perspective. hey, john. hey, shep, you know, social security is often the thing that is called the third rail of politics. the one that can never be touched, but over the past 100 years, presidents have also found that trying to tackle healthcare is equally dangerous, just as politically charged as presidential historian nic told us today. historically it has not worked out well. exactly 100 years ago president theodore roosevelt championed national health insurance as part of his campaign for the white house. he lost
created a federal government of limited powers and assigned to this court of duty of enforcing those limits of the court does so today. they reigned in congress when it came to the commerce clause but said taxing power allows you to do what you have done in this healthcare law. shepard: the court ruled on massive expansion of medicaid. give us the details of that please. interesting. 26 states had sued. challenging the law as a whole. put millions of new people on to state medicaid rules under the it healthcare law. they couldn t afford it and law became a threat that the secretary of human services could scrap all of the existing money any didn t take the new people on to the roles that medicaid expansion can move forward. here is the caveat from the chief justice writing quote what congress is not free to do choose states not participate in new program by taking away their existing medicaid funding. some folks asked will the states say they won t participate since there is no thr
decision was a victory for people all over this country. shepard: the president also said he didn t do this because it s good politics. he did it because he believes it s good for the country. the republic presidential candidate mitt romney spoke about 20 minutes before the president. he said if he wins in november the healthcare law is history. what the court did not do on its last day in session, i will do on my first day if elected president of the united states. and that is i will act to repeal obama care. shepard: he called it a job killer. one that raises taxes and adds to the national debt. if we want good jobs and a bright economic future for ourselves and for our kids, we must replace obama care. shepard: the senate majority leader harry reid said the court clearly put the rule of law ahead of par partisanship. soon they have health care they can afford. since the supreme court has spoken this matter is settled.
and then came president obama s healthcare overhaul. this clearly is the biggest change in our healthcare system in the past 100 years. which brings us to today, and while the supreme court has upheld the leement of legality of the law. the politics of all of, this shep, haven t changed. and this century old battle over healthcare may well shape yet another presidential election. shep? shepard: jonathan, thank you. the healthcare law wasn t the only thing shaking up wall street today. the new numbers from the feds, which left some investors quite nervous. we will get those to you ahead. plus the wildfires have now burned hundreds of homes to the ground. now we re seeing what that really means. for every pile of ash in this neighborhood there is a family most likely wondering where they will sleep tonight. the horrors in colorado come in to focus and we will take you there next. i ve been fortunate to win on golf s biggest stages.