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  Obama Health Law Comes Before [U.S. Sixth Circuit] Court in Second of Three Cases
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Last EditedBrandonius Maximus  Jun 01, 2011 03:34pm
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News DateWednesday, June 1, 2011 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionPresident Barack Obama’s health-care law, including its mandate that most Americans obtain insurance, went before a U.S. appeals court, the second of at least three such panels that will consider the act’s constitutionality.

Opponents of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, signed into law by Obama, a Democrat, in March 2010, have argued Congress exceeded its authority in requiring almost all Americans to have health insurance or face a tax penalty starting in 2014.

“They’re mandating somebody to engage in commerce,” Robert Muise, a lawyer for the Thomas More Law Center, told the three-member panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati today. “This is the outer reaches of Congress’s authority to regulate under the commerce clause” of the U.S. Constitution, he said.

Three lower-court judges have upheld the legislation, intended to create the first near-universal U.S. health-care coverage program. Two have declared it all or partly invalid. Decisions by appeals courts, including the three-judge panel in Cincinnati, may set the stage for review by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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