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Posted on Fri Aug 12, 2011 at 05:17:23 PM EST
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Obama's health care bill took a hit today.
A federal appeals court in Atlanta on Friday struck down a key provision of the Obama administration's health care reform law, ruling that Congress exceeded its authority in mandating that most Americans buy health insurance by 2014 or face a penalty.
A divided, three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the individual mandate was "breathtaking in its expansive scope" and therefore unconstitutional. The "individual mandate," they wrote, "exceeds Congress's enumerated commerce power."
The opinion is here.
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Posted on Tue Mar 16, 2010 at 06:54:58 PM EST
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Will the health care bill pass? Five more Dems said no today.
Five more House Democrats said Tuesday that they will vote against Senate health care legislation, which puts opponents of reform just 11 votes shy of the 216 needed to prevent President Obama from scoring a major victory on his top domestic priority.
Here's the list of 27 Democrats opposing the bill.
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