High court should expedite health reform ruling

Former Kansas Attorney General Robert Stephan wants the U.S. Supreme Court to hurry up and weigh in on the constitutionality of the health reform act, much as the court expedited Bush v. Gore in 2000. “A case may be taken by the Supreme Court before judgment upon a showing that the case is of such public importance as to justify deviation from normal appellate practice as to require immediate determination by the court,” wrote Stephan in a Kansas Health Institute News Service commentary. “If there ever was a case of public importance that would justify deviation from normal appellate practice, it is the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act.”