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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Oct 14, 2010 11:32am |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Julian Pecquet |
| News Date | Thursday, October 14, 2010 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The health policy world is fixated on Florida today as a federal judge gets ready to decide whether a multi-state challenge to the health reform law can move forward.
Attorney General Bill McCollum's lawsuit, filed the same day that President Obama signed health reform into law, is the main legal challenge. Challengers include 21 states and the National Federation of Independent Business.
The Florida lawsuit includes six counts, but the main issue at play is whether the law's individual mandate, requiring people to be insured starting in 2014, is constitutional.
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.
Florida Northern District Senior Judge Roger Vinson has said he will enter his written order on the administration's motion to dismiss the case on or before Oct. 14. The judge is widely expected to allow the individual mandate challenge to go forward. |
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