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Health Law Provision Ruled Unconstitutional

13.12.2010 20:33

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Jason Millman, The Hill
In a stinging rebuke to the Obama administration, a federal judge Monday invalidated a key provision of the recently passed health care law, saying that it "exceeds the constitutional boundaries of congressional power."The ruling was the first from a federal judge invalidating a provision the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which Congress passed in 2010.U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson said in a 42-page opinion that the so-called individual mandate provision, which requires all Americans to buy some form of health insurance, would "invite unbridled exercise of...

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