Mike Hennessy

After a years-long effort by Congressional Republicans and conservative advocacy groups to repeal the Affordable Care Act was thwarted last year by the Roberts Supreme Court, a new battle to eliminate a major component of the law may be taking shape, one in which the usual pro-repeal advocates may fight alongside some rather unlikely allies.

Now that the Supreme Court has heard oral arguments in the case of King v. Burwell, let's look ahead at the potential post-Affordable Care Act health care landscape and examine what a potential ACA replacement may look like should the Supreme Court rule against the Obama administration.

The "architect" of the Affordable Care Act recently revealed the big lie at the heart of President Obama's signature health care reform legislation.

In the wake of the landslide Republican victory in the midterm Senate and Congressional elections, the stage is set for renewed attempts for pragmatic reform of the Affordable Care Act.

In a potentially crippling setback to the Affordable Care Act, a panel of judges from a federal court of appeals ruled it is illegal for the federal government to provide subsidies for health insurance purchased through federally run exchanges.

Focusing only on the number of people who have enrolled for insurance through the exchanges ignores indications that the ACA is failing in its primary mission.

A union report warns the ACA threatens the middle class with higher insurance premiums, fewer full-time jobs, and less comprehensive health coverage.

The recently proposed Patient Choice, Affordability, Responsibility, and Empowerment Act would provide consumers with greater insurance choices, reduce healthcare costs, and severely rein in government interference in the healthcare market.

Despite Affordable Care Act supporters' promises and predictions, healthy young consumers have not been flocking to the health insurance exchanges to sign up for coverage. Now the Obama administration is planning a full-court press to convince them to enroll.

President Obama has been called out for falsely assuring Americans they could keep their current insurance if they liked it. Now we're learning that the second part of that promise – that Americans would also be able to keep their doctors – was also false.

Millions of Americans will soon find out that even if they like their current health insurance, the Affordable Care Act ensures they won't be able to keep it.

If a luxury item is by definition something you can do without, by targeting so-called "Cadillac" insurance plans to help pay for the Affordable Care Act, the Obama administration is making it clear that it's more concerned with limiting healthcare choices than it is with ensuring Americans have access to high-quality insurance.

When promoting the virtues of the ACA, President Obama famously promised that people who were happy with their current insurance would be able to keep it. However, thousands of Americans are finding out that's not true at all.

The Affordable Care Act was sold to the public as an effective means of providing affordable health insurance to millions of Americans who currently do not have coverage, particularly the poorest members of our society. It turns out that the law will push more Americans into part-time jobs that are ineligible for employer-provided insurance, forcing them to choose between purchasing expensive coverage through an insurance exchange or forgoing insurance altogether and paying a fine.

Now that it's becoming clear the ACA is a train wreck, some of the president's staunchest allies are openly calling for repeal of the law.

Recent announcements of major delays in implementing key parts of the law demonstrate the Affordable Care Act is fundamentally flawed.

Months before the Affordable Care Act (ACA) fully takes effect, it is already having negative effects on business and hiring in the US.

As predicted, many insurers are set to raise premiums for health insurance policies as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) comes fully online next year. The high prices will be out of reach for many of the people the ACA was touted as helping, forcing consumers to choose between paying for budget-busting health insurance or forgoing coverage and paying a penalty.

The central promise of the ACA is that it will increase access to care for millions of Americans. However, because the ACA will also worsen an already chronic shortage of physicians, it is likely to make it harder, not easier, for Americans to obtain quality medical care.

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a flawed attempt at health care reform that will make it harder for physicians to maintain independent private practices and incentivize doctors to become hospital and health system employees, leading to a decline in physician productivity and reduced access to care for millions of Americans.

The sad fact is that this the fiscal cliff deal doesn't really solve anything at all. It merely defers some of America's toughest spending problems for another two months. It's time for our leaders to stop acting like fiscally irresponsible children and start acting like sensible adults.

While the direct "tax" of mandatory insurance purchases levied on the public by the ACA is onerous enough, it is the raft of hidden and "stealth" taxes enacted by this legislation that make it such a bad deal for all Americans.

Continuing to fund wasteful health care programs that place less and less responsibility on those receiving benefits, compromise quality and reduce choice threatens our economic future and the well-being of our seniors.

We cannot afford another four years of the dangerous and misguided public and economic policies that have ballooned the deficit, crushed the economy and put millions of Americans out of work. Left unchecked, this fiscal irresponsibility will kill America's future.

The president addressed the nation about the ongoing debt ceiling negotiations but didn't provide any real solutions, and there needs to be a dramatic change in how we address expenditures and revenue generation to have any hope of returning to economic stability.

For years, physicians have complained that their reimbursement was determined in large part by unaccountable Medicare bureaucrats who were more interested in controlling spending than in providing quality patient care. Now, with the passage last year of the Affordable Care Act, that lament is truer than ever. One key provision of the law will most assuredly seek to "fix" Medicare on the backs of the physicians who deliver the care.

The U.S. House of Representatives this week voted overwhelmingly to repeal President Obama's healthcare reform law. We also received further confirmation that Obamacare is particularly hurtful for the small businesses that are the heart and soul of healthcare: physician practices. The whole country is now watching to see whether this vote was merely a symbolic gesture or the first step toward real, common-sense reform.

As a lame duck Congress scrambles to find a temporary compromise on the Medicare physician-reimbursement formula, a weary physician workforce watches and waits, resigned to more months of uncertainty. By not appreciating what this does to physicians' morale, the public is telling doctors that from a federal policy point of view, they simply don't matter.

We're coming up on yet another deadline for major Medicare payment cuts, a deadline that was delayed months ago by a Congress that chose to kick the can down the road, rather than do the heavy lifting and make the hard choices that a permanent solution would require. Will Congress yet again take the easy way out and avoid its responsibility to ensure that physicians receive equitable reimbursement and patients on Medicare continue to have access to services?