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  • Appeals court rules against Obama healthcare law

    08/12/2011 10:43:48 AM PDT · by americanophile · 184 replies
    Reuters ^ | Jeremy Pelofsky and James Vicini
    (Reuters) - An appeals court ruled on Friday that President Barack Obama's healthcare law requiring Americans to buy healthcare insurance or face a penalty was unconstitutional, a blow to the White House. The Appeals Court for the 11th Circuit, based in Atlanta, found that Congress exceeded its authority by requiring Americans to buy coverage, but also ruled that the rest of the wide-ranging law could remain in effect. The legality of the so-called individual mandate, a cornerstone of the healthcare law, is widely expected to be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. The Obama administration has defended the provision as...
  • White House criticizes court's health care ruling

    08/12/2011 12:21:58 PM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 49 replies
    Associated Press ^ | August 12, 2011
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is expressing confidence that it's constitutional to require people to have health insurance and believes that President Barack Obama's health care law will be survive all legal challenges in the end. Obama adviser Stephanie Cutter says the White House strongly disagrees with an appeals court ruling Friday that struck down the insurance requirement at the center of a law.
  • Judges sharply challenge healthcare law

    06/08/2011 11:16:34 AM PDT · by Mount Athos · 108 replies
    LA Times ^ | June 8, 2011 | David G. Savage
    A top Obama administration lawyer defending last year's healthcare law ran into skeptical questions Wednesday from three federal judges here, who suggested they may be ready to declare all or part of the law unconstitutional. And in an ominous sign for the administration, the judges opened the arguments by saying they knew of no case in American history where the courts had upheld the government's power to force someone to buy a product. "I can't find any case like this," said Chief Judge Joel Dubina of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. "If we uphold this, are there any limits"...