Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Health Care: The Next Supreme Court case?

Thirteen state attorney generals (including Colorado's) have banded together to file one giant lawsuit against the US Dept. of Health and Human Services today, supplementing the individual lawsuit of Virginia's attorney general. The lawsuits call into question the legality of mandating citizens to purchase health insurance. According to the lawsuit, "The Constitution nowhere authorizes the United States to mandate, either directly or under threat of penalty, that all citizens and legal residents have qualifying health care coverage." The Dept. of Justice, however, says the bill is 100% constitutional, citing the commerce clause. It'll be interesting to see how this case will go, but as Mr. Coit told us, the Commerce Clause is basically a trump card, and there are no evident loopholes.

Read the article here.

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