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Conservative justices question health care law  The fate of
President Barack Obama's health care overhaul was cast into
deeper jeopardy Tuesday as the Supreme Court's conservative
justices sharply and repeatedly questioned its core requirement
that virtually every American carry insurance. The court will
now take up whether any remnant of the historic law can survive
if that linchpin fails.  By: Mark Sherman, Associated Press
The justices' questions in Tuesday's hearing carried deeply
serious implications but were sometimes flavored with fanciful
suggestions. If the government can force people to buy health
insurance, justices wanted to know, can it require people to buy
burial insurance? Cellphones? Broccoli?  The law, pushed to
passage by Obama and congressional Democrats two years ago,
would affect nearly all Americans and extend insurance coverage
to 30 million people who now lack it.