Obama's Reelection Cements His Healthcare Law
President Obama's victory all but assures that his landmark healthcare law and its guarantee of insurance coverage for nearly all Americans will be implemented, effectively putting an end to the Republican campaign to derail the law.
That outcome - which seemed almost unimaginable this spring when the Supreme Court considered whether the Affordable Care Act was constitutional - puts immediate pressure on many Republican state leaders who fought it. They must decide in days whether to implement it or have the federal government do it for them.
Tuesday's results also present Obama with a new set of challenges as he tries to fulfill the promise of his signature legislative achievement, the biggest expansion of the social safety net since Medicare and Medicaid were created in 1965.
Full Story by Noam Levey in the Los Angeles Times.