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On Monday U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson in Florida ruled the Obama administration’s healthcare insurance overhaul was unconstitutional. The law will stay in effect while the decision is appealed.

CLARK NEWHALL

Executive director of Health Justice, Newhall is a doctor and a lawyer. He said today: “Just like the government cannot force you to buy a car from GM because there is not enough mass transit, so too Congress cannot force you to buy insurance from Wellpoint when there is not enough health care access. Notably, the Florida judge said that Congress can certainly ‘regulate’ insurance, and he also determined that a government benefit program (Medicaid) is constitutional, but he said that the individual mandate is so integral to the PPACA [last year's major healthcare insurance law] that the entire act is void. In other words, the government cannot say — you MUST buy insurance from a private company.

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