Dr. John A. Sparks,FloydReports.com
One of the key provisions of the Obama administration’s healthcare law has been struck down as unconstitutional by Federal District Court Judge Henry E. Hudson. The decision is the culmination of a lawsuit brought by the Commonwealth of Virginia against Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
The complaint was filed by Virginia’s Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli in the Eastern District of Virginia in March of this year. It sought to prevent the enforcement of something often called the “individual mandate” but euphemistically referred to in the healthcare law as the “minimum essential coverage provision.” The Virginia lawsuit said bluntly and accurately that beginning in 2014 this provision of the Obamacare law (section 1501) would require Americans “to purchase health insurance for themselves and their dependents subject to a civil penalty.” Furthermore,the Commonwealth’s lawsuit stated that provision 1501 would force “healthy young adults and other rationally uninsured individuals” to purchase insurance in order to “cross subsidize older and less healthy citizens.” Now,due to the persistence of Attorney General Cuccinelli,that provision has been found to be constitutionally flawed,albeit by a lower-level federal court.
The important question is this:On what basis did the Obama administration and the Congress believe they could use the force of law (IRS enforcement) to compel U.S. citizens to purchase a service,in this case health insurance,against their will? More specific,where in the Constitution is Congress given that kind of power? ….
Obamacare unconstitutional:Not news,just about everything done by this Democratic controlled Congress has been unconstitutional. No surprise,with an illegal in the Presidents Office. On top of that,complete idiots like Reid &Pelosi.