Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson of the Northern District of Florida declared that the healthcare law passed last year is unconstitutional. The ruling came in the most closely watched of the challenges to the law.
Vinson ruled the key provision of the PPACA’s “individual mandate” which requires Americans to buy health insurance by 2014 unconstitutional and in violation of the Commerce Clause, therefore voiding the entire act.
The U.S. Justice Department has already vowed to appeal the ruling in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court is expected to take the case as soon as later in the year, though there has been no indication yet.
The states bringing suit in the appeal are Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Virginia and Oklahoma filed separate challenges to the law along with other groups and individuals in opposition.
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