It won’t be the last stop for President Obama’s signature health care bill, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, but it was a road bump that I’m sure the Obama Administration could have done without. Today, a federal judge in Virginia ruled that the “individual mandate,” which mandates health coverage for most Americans by 2014, […]
The legal challenges to the health care bill
March 24, 2010 by Daniel Burton
Apparently, there is some question about the legality of the bill recently (as in yesterday) signed into law by President Obama. I’ve already discussed the questionable procedures used to pass it in the House. But what about the bill itself? Is it legal? Is it constitutional? Let me just say at the outset that rational […]
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