Appeals Court Rule Right
No CommentsAugust 12, 2011 at 3:29 pmCategory:Health Care
The First Step in the right direction (pardon the pun) is the federal appeals court which has ruled against the Obama health law’s individual mandate, however, it viewed that mandate as a separate entity.
Chief Judge Joel Dubina wrote that “this economic mandate represents a wholly novel and potentially unbounded assertion of congressional authority: the ability to compel Americans to purchase an expensive health insurance product they have elected not to buy, and to make them re-purchase that insurance product every month for their entire lives.”
The fight just goes on and probably to the US Supreme Court.
Great strides have been made in overcoming the hammer and sickle of Obamacare. This decision, combined with the failure of a liberal group in Ohio to block a ballot initiative on rejecting the individual mandate, means that the Obama administration will continue to have its hands full trying to defend its costly and unpopular health-care law.
Keep fighting the good fight!

