Judges strike down Arizona’s anti-Obamacare constitutional provision
The provision of a 2010 voter-approved measure saying Arizonans don't have to buy health insurance is unenforceable because it conflicts with the federal Affordable Care Act, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
Brewer: Mandate delay isn’t worth shutdown
Gov. Jan Brewer said a delay of Obamacare’s individual mandate isn’t worth a federal government shutdown.
States damaging their own case with insurance-exchange moves
On Nov. 14, the U.S. Supreme Court granted review of the 26-state lawsuit against the president’s health care law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The court granted five and half hours for oral argument, including two hours of argument on the individual mandate and one and a half hours on severability, which addresses whether, in the event the mandate is found unconstitutional, t[...]
No need to worry, says Kanefield
Brewer's attorney Joe Kanefield said he wasn't at all concerned about yesterday's ruling by a Virginia federal judge's decision to throw out a private law school's lawsuit against the individual mandate in the federal health care reform package.