US court refuses to grant Obamacare stay

The US Supreme Court has rejected a request to block implementation of the country's health care law.

The Supreme Court has refused a group of doctors' request to block implementation of the United States' new health care law.

Chief Justice John Roberts turned away without comment on Monday an emergency stay request from the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons, Inc and the Alliance for Natural Health USA.

They asked the chief justice on Friday to temporarily block the law, saying congress had passed it incorrectly by starting it in the Senate instead of the House.

Revenue-raising bills are supposed to originate in the lower chamber.

They also wanted to block doctor registration requirements they say will make it harder for independent non-Medicare physicians to treat Medicare-eligible patients.

Still pending is a decision on a temporary block on the law's contraceptive coverage requirements, which was challenged by a group of nuns.


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