"Judge rules healthcare reform unconstitutional By Tom Brown MIAMI | Mon Jan 31, 2011 3:28pm EST MIAMI (Reuters) - A judge in Florida on Monday became the second judge to declare President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law unconstitutional, in the biggest legal challenge yet to federal authority to enact the law. U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson, appointed to the bench by President Ronald Reagan in 1983, ruled that the reform law's so-called "individual mandate" went too far in requiring that Americans start buying health insurance in 2014 or pay a penalty. "Because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable,...
