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You can add another court decision to the growing stack of rulings about the constitutionality of the new health care law and its individual mandate.
A panel for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has affirmed a lower court ruling that the Affordable Care Act is constitutional. You can read the decision here. (hit tip Aravosis)
In a 2-1 decision the Appeals Court concluded that the commerce clause does give Congress the power to make individuals obtain health insurance.
We have now had multiple Courts of Appeals ruling on the issue with some courts declaring the individual mandate is constitutional and others concluding that the provision exceeds the constitutional powers given to Congress.
While this most recent decision should be of interest to legal scholars, at this point the issue is effectively guaranteed to end up before the Supreme Court. Ultimately the constitutionality of the individual mandate and potentially the entirety or at least related provisions of the Affordable Care Act will be decided by the nine Supreme Court Justices. That will be the only ruling on the issue that really matters.
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I’d be happy to pay for it, if it was actually a real healthcare system and just not a kickback to the health care and pharmaceutical industry. How about an actual healthcare system that takes care of its people and they aren’t forced to chose between life and death and consider whether they can afford care.
I hope the law goes away. It was horrible and rotten to the core. Just like Obama, a total sham.
The USSC has a problem with this one.
The 5 conservatives would love to give Obama a black eye – decisions these days have nothing to do with law and precedent as we can always find original intent that supports our right wing position – but the corporations do not want single payer and fear that would be the result of killing ACA – plus the ins companies want their $600 billion welfare check of premium subsidies on mandated sales – and 5 conservatives on the USSC are always on their knees to the corporations.
But let me endorse Wirerat1′s “I hope the law goes away. It was horrible and rotten to the core. Just like Obama, a total sham”.
a nation cannot have universal health care and the private sector providing the insurance. that simple but way to complex for most americans that love their capitalism more than their bibles.