Monday, January 31, 2011

Obamacare is Unconstitutional!

Federal U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson has declared that the individual mandate in the health care bill is unconstitutional and that the mandate is unseverable from the rest of the law. This basically revokes the entire law!

Will this open up the door to forget repeal and go directly to replace?


UPDATE: 3:33pm

Judge Rules Health Care Law Is Unconstitutional
Judge Roger Vinson said as a result of the unconstitutionality of the "individual mandate" that requires people to buy insurance, the entire law must be thrown out.

"I must reluctantly conclude that Congress exceeded the bounds of its authority in passing the Act with the individual mandate. That is not to say, of course, that Congress is without power to address the problems and inequities in our health care system. The health care market is more than one sixth of the national economy, and without doubt Congress has the power to reform and regulate this market. That has not been disputed in this case. The principal dispute has been about how Congress chose to exercise that power here," Vinson wrote.
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