Patient Power

Challenging mandatory insurance in court

From the AP:

Opponents of the health care reform bill are not giving up the fight, and some think their last, best hope to halt the legislation lies not in the Capitol but in the court across the street.

A small but vocal contingent of legal scholars and many Republican lawmakers argues the measures passed by both chambers are unconstitutional and will be ruled so by the Supreme Court. Their primary target: the individual mandate, which requires people to get health insurance or pay a financial penalty of at least 2 percent of their income to the government.

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