Reply #56: Majority of States Challenge Mandatory Health Care as Unconstitutional

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http://www.allgov.com/Top_Stories/ViewNews/Majority_of_States_Challenge_Mandatory_Health_Care_as_Unconstitutional_110506

A little more than half of the nation’s states have joined together to challenge the federal healthcare reform law, arguing that the legislation’s core requirement for all Americans to carry health insurance, known as the health insurance mandate, is unconstitutional.

Attorneys general from 26 states have filed a motion in the Atlanta-based 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold a lower court ruling that found Congress and President Barack Obama overstepped their federal authority in creating the insurance mandate.

To date, judicial decisions regarding the healthcare law have fallen along partisan lines: three Democratic-appointed judges have upheld it; and two Republican-selected judges have ruled against it. Legal experts say the matter may go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which could find itself split on the topic.