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Reuters General/ - Article, Sáb, 31 de Março de 2012<br />
CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL (Supreme Court)<br />
What Supreme Court? Obama defends<br />
healthcare law, skirts debate<br />
By Jeff Mason<br />
Portland, Maine | Fri Mar 30, 2012 8:52pm EDT<br />
(Reuters) - He didn't mention them by <strong>na</strong>me, but they<br />
seemed to be on his mind. President Barack Obama<br />
defended his healthcare reform effort on Friday without<br />
mentioning the Supreme Court justices who hold the<br />
law's fate in their hands.<br />
Obama's healthcare legislation, considered his<br />
sig<strong>na</strong>ture domestic policy achievement, domi<strong>na</strong>ted<br />
headlines this week as the Supreme Court heard<br />
arguments about its constitutio<strong>na</strong>lity.<br />
The president was briefed about the proceedings but<br />
did not comment on healthcare publicly until Friday,<br />
during a series of fund raisers for his re-election<br />
campaign in Vermont and Maine.<br />
While listing the reform as evidence of the "change"<br />
agenda he promised in 2008, Obama skirted the issue<br />
of the Supreme Court's potentially game-changing<br />
role.<br />
"Change is the health care reform that we passed after<br />
over a century of trying," he said to applause from a<br />
crowd of donors at a campaign event in Burlington,<br />
Vermont.<br />
"Already millions of seniors are paying less for their<br />
prescription drugs because of this law. Already,<br />
Americans can't be denied or dropped by their<br />
insurance company when they need care the most.<br />
Already, they're getting preventive care that they didn't<br />
have before. That's happening right now."<br />
Republican presidential candidates have made<br />
repealing what they call "Obamacare" a key promise of<br />
their respective quests to win their party's presidential<br />
nomi<strong>na</strong>tion and challenge Obama in the November 6<br />
election.<br />
The Supreme Court could help their case and deliver<br />
a major blow to the president if it nixes all or part of the<br />
law in a decision expected by late June.<br />
The justices held closed-door deliberations about the<br />
law on Friday and were likely to have cast prelimi<strong>na</strong>ry<br />
votes.<br />
Obama highlighted healthcare reform as one of his top<br />
accomplishments at a second series of fund raisers in<br />
Maine on Friday. Ticket prices for the fi<strong>na</strong>l fundraising<br />
event started at $5,000.<br />
(Editing by Todd Eastham)<br />
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