Florida Judge Rules Health Care Challenge Can Continue

[WestVirginiaRebel]

ABC News:

ABC News' Ariane de Vogue reports: In a blow to the Obama administration, a federal judge in Florida today issued a ruling allowing parts of a lawsuit by 20 states challenging the recently passed health care legislation to proceed.

The two parts of the law that will proceed to trial are expansion of Medicaid and the individual mandate that requires qualifying individuals to obtain health insurance by 2014.

Of all the challenges to the health care law, this is one of the most interesting because of the numbers of states that have signed on. At issue today were mostly procedural issues not the core constitutional questions. The office of Judge Roger Vinson of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida who issued today's ruling, said the trial is scheduled to start in early December.

Attorney General Bill McCollum, who has spearheaded the effort against the federal government, released a statement saying: “This ruling is a victory for the states, small businesses and the American people. It is the first step to having the individual mandate declared unconstitutional and upholding state sovereignty in our federal system.”

In his ruling, Judge Roger Vinson explained: “I have not attempted to determine whether the line between Constitutional and extra constitutional government has been crossed. ... I am only saying... the plaintiffs have at least stated a plausible claim that the line has been crossed.”
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Obama to states: We know what's best for you.

States to Obama: UP YOURS.

[Stella]

States to Obama: UP YOURS.

 

 

:lol:

[SrWoodchuck]

WVR!

 

Prayers answered here! Colorado joined that suit.