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Florida judge: Fight against insurance mandate can proceed
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| Author | Julian Pecquet |
| News Date | Thursday, October 14, 2010 08:15:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A federal judge in Florida on Thursday ruled that challenges to the healthcare reform law's individual mandate and its Medicaid expansion can proceed.
The widely expected ruling does not mean that Florida Northern District Senior Judge Roger Vinson agrees that the law is unconstitutional, only that the arguments against it can't be dismissed out of hand as the Obama administration had requested. Vinson threw out four other counts having to do with taxation and requiring states to enforce the law.
Attorney General Bill McCollum's lawsuit, filed the same day that President Obama signed health reform into law, is the main legal challenge to the Democrats' signature domestic achievement. Challengers include 21 states and the National Federation of Independent Business.
The controversial mandate is central for the law to function because without it private insurers say they'd go broke if they had to follow the new law's requirements on covering sick people.
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