Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 5. March 2011 02:11
The New York Times reports that on March 3, 2011 a Florida federal district court judge ordered a stay of his previous ruling that the health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is unconstitutional. Prior to the Florida ruling, two other federal judges upheld ACA’s constitutionality and another federal judge found it to be partially unconstitutional. [More]
Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 8. February 2011 19:39
A fourth federal district court has ruled on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA). On January 31, 2011 a Federal District Court Judge in Pensacola, Florida ruled that ACA violates the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution in that the Act requires every American to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty (called the “individual mandate”). Although the Judge upheld the constitutionality of the Medicaid expansion included in the Act, he ruled that the individual mandate is so intricately bound with the purpose of ACA that the invalidation of the individual mandate invalidates ACA in its entirety. [More]
Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 17. December 2010 22:26
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