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When the general public received warnings about how long it would take for “Obama-Care” to kick in, we had no idea it would be because so many people would be against the idea of universal health care.

But the Obama administration is still fighting the 26 states that have declared the President’s Congressionally approved health care plan unconstitutional, this time taking the fight to the Supreme Court.

The administration formally appealed a ruling by the federal appeals court in Atlanta that struck down the law’s core requirement that individuals buy health insurance or pay a penalty beginning in 2014.

At the same time, however, the winners in that appellate case, 26 states and the National Federation of Independent Business, also asked for high court review Wednesday, saying the entire law, and not just the individual insurance mandate, should be struck down.

The Supreme Court almost always weighs in when a lower court has struck down all or part of a federal law, to say nothing of one that aims to extend insurance coverage to more than 30 million Americans.

The bigger question had been the timing. The administration’s filing makes it more likely that the case will be heard and decided in the term that begins next week.

Repeating arguments it has made in courts across the country in response to many challenges to the law, the administration said Congress was well within its constitutional power to enact the insurance requirement.

Disagreeing with that, the 26 states and business group said in their filings that the justices should act before the 2012 presidential election because of uncertainty over costs and requirements.

Do you think, in all this fighting, that the general public, the people who are directly affected, are getting enough information about the health care plan?

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