The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on the legality of the Affordable Care Act sometime this month.

The following experts are available to comment for stories leading up to the decision and afterward.

Neil Siegel
Professor of law and political science, director of the Program in Public Law, Duke University.
siegel@law.duke.edu
http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/siegel
Video: http://ondemand.duke.edu/video/31843/is-obamacare-unconstitutional

Siegel is an expert on constitutional law and theory who served as special counsel to former Sen. Joseph Biden during the confirmation hearings of John Roberts and Samuel Alito. During the October 2003 term, Siegel clerked for associate justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Siegel's op-ed on what striking down the law would mean appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, http://tinyurl.com/dyqjxqp. He also has written six papers on the constitutionality of the ACA's individual mandate provision: http://www.law.duke.edu/scholarship/facpub#siegeln

Donald Taylor
Associate professor of public policy studies, Duke University.
don.taylor@duke.edu
http://fds.duke.edu/db/Sanford/dtaylor
Video: http://ondemand.duke.edu/video/32761/election-2012-the-health-care-

Taylor conducts research on aging and comparative health systems, including Medicare, long-term care and health policy. He blogs about health care policy at http://donaldhtaylorjr.wordpress.com. Taylor's op-ed in The (Raleigh) News & Observer on a health care setup both sides could live with can be found at http://tinyurl.com/6w5sjrp.

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