Hospitals, Patient Groups Urge Fast-Track for Obamacare Review

Friend of the court briefs are pouring into the U.S. Supreme Court to support states that want a Fifth Circuit decision on Obamacare’s constitutionality reviewed now, despite an order that sent the case back to the trial court.

Major hospital, health insurance, disease research, and patient advocacy groups Wednesday urged the high court to review the case quickly. Being forced to wait while a federal district considers if the entirety of the massive law is invalid or whether the individual mandate can simply be cut off from the rest would only exacerbate an already difficult situation, they said.

The mandate, ...