AOL.COM: A federal judge declared the Obama administration’s health care overhaul unconstitutional Monday, siding with 26 states that argued people cannot be required to buy health insurance.
U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson agreed with the states that the new law violates people’s rights by forcing them to buy health insurance by 2014 or face penalties. He went a step further than a previous ruling against the law, declaring the entire thing unconstitutional if the insurance requirement does not hold up.
Attorneys for the administration had argued that the states did not have standing to challenge the law and that the case should be dismissed… (more)
A federal judge ruled this afternoon that the new health care law is unconstitutional. We expect to see an appeal hit the Supreme Court in 2012.
The suit was filed just minutes after the President signed the Affordable Care Act into law and tried in one of Florida’s most conservative courts. The judge even compared the mandate to forcing everyone to buy broccoli.. You’ll remember there was a similar ruling that came out of Virginia in December. Two federal judges have upheld the law as constitutional and another dozen have thrown the case out all together – those 14 judges, however, have not gotten nearly as much coverage.