Doctors protest against President Obama's health care reform in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington.Yuri Gripas/Reuters
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday morning to uphold President Barack Obama's signature domestic achievement so far - healthcare reform. The decision comes in middle of a heated presidential campaign, and America's political class and millions of ordinary people were looking to the Supreme Court to see which way it rules on the law.
The legal challenge was centred around the constitutionality of the so-called individual mandate, which compels Americans to purchase health insurance by 2014 or face a tax penalty. The Democrats' aim was to extend health coverage to 30 million uninsured Americans and control costs. Opponents have cast the mandate as an overreach of governmental authority.
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