Obamacare unconstitutional

A federal judge in Florida declared the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as “Obamacare,” to be unconstitutional, deciding in favor of the state of Florida in its case against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Judge Roger Vinson said his decision was based on the fact that the law creates a federal mandate for individual health insurance, a mandate that Vinson says the federal government does not have a constitutional right to enact.

“I must reluctantly conclude that Congress exceeded the bounds of its authority in passing the Act with the individual mandate,” Vinson wrote in his decision. “Because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire Act must be declared void.”