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Congress Votes to Repeal Small Part of Health Law
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The Senate has voted to send the White House its first rollback of last year's health care law, a bipartisan repeal of a burdensome tax reporting requirement that's widely unpopular with businesses. The Senate voted 87 to 12 to repeal the filing requirement, which would have forced millions of businesses to file tax forms for every vendor selling them more than $600 in goods each year, starting in 2012. The filing requirement is unrelated to health care. However, it would have been used to pay for part of the new health law. President Barack Obama has said he favors repealing ...
Mitt Romney Not Sorry for 'Romneycare,' but Will It Kill a White House Bid?
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsToday, likely GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney defended the universal health care law he implemented as governor of Massachusetts, saying there's a clear difference between his plan and President Barack Obama's reform effort. Romney has been in the hot seat during the health care debate because key elements of his plan are reflected in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. "Romneycare" includes an individual coverage mandate, for example, the provision that prompted Judge Roger Vinson to declare Obama's plan unconstitutional. According to Romney, "states have rights that the ...
Federal Judge Strikes Down Obama Administration's Health Care Overhaul
By not in system - AOL NewsPENSACOLA, Fla. -- A federal judge declared the Obama administration's health care overhaul unconstitutional Monday, siding with 26 states that argued people cannot be required to buy health insurance. Senior U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson agreed with the states that the new law violates people's rights by forcing them to buy health insurance by 2014 or face penalties. He went a step further than a previous ruling against the law, declaring the entire thing unconstitutional if the insurance requirement does not hold up. Attorneys for the administration had argued that the states did not ...
Judge Vinson Declares 'Obamacare' Unconstitutional: So What Next?
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsNow that federal Judge Roger Vinson has declared the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act unconstitutional, strong opinions about his decision are emerging. Opponents of the health care reform law, including many conservatives and tea party affiliates, see Vinson's decision as a victory for their side. .bbpBox32176995483779070 {background:url(http://a3.twimg.com/a/1296156503/images/themes/theme1/bg.png) #022330;padding:20px;} p.bbpTweet{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px ...
Severability Clause at Heart of Judge Vinson's Ruling That 'Obamacare' Is Unconstitutional
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsA federal judge in Florida has ruled that the federal health care overhaul legislation is unconstitutional. Why? Because the legislation did not include a severability clause. The severability clause problem is related to perhaps the most controversial part of the law: the mandate that requires all Americans to possess health care coverage. Roger Vinson, the federal judge behind today's ruling, agreed with plaintiffs who argued that if the mandate is unconstitutional, the entire law should be struck down. That's because the legislation lacked the so-called "severability clause," which ...
Meet Judge Roger Vinson, the Man Who Ruled 'Obamacare' Unconstitutional
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsToday U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson ruled that President Obama's health care reform law is unconstitutional because of a provision that requires individuals to purchase health insurance. Twenty-six states were party to the suit, claiming that the insurance mandate violates constitutional law. Because Democrats did not write a severability clause into the health care act, the entire legislation may be challenged by the unconstitutionality of certain provisions. Andrew Cohen at The Atlantic notes that today's ruling is a lower-court decision that won't determine the ultimate fate of the ...
Democrats Accuse Republicans of Losing Jobs Focus
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Republicans won dozens of elections last fall after claiming Democrats had focused too little on creating jobs. Now GOP lawmakers stand accused of the same charge, using their new House majority to push to repeal the president's health care law, restrict abortions and highlight other social issues important to their most conservative supporters. Republican leaders say they have a jobs agenda, kicked off by their attempt to unravel what they call the Democrats' "jobs-killing" health overhaul. Democrats scoff at this notion, and they're hounding Republicans to show how they can ...
House GOP Introduces Bills to Bar Most Taxpayer Funding of Abortion
By David Gibson and Alex Wagner - Politics DailyHouse Speaker John Boehner said he wanted to be "the most pro-life speaker ever" and on Thursday the Ohio Republican showed how he plans do that by hailing new bills aimed at barring federal funds from paying for abortions. The most ambitious legislation is the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act," a measure that again reprises the health care reform battle from the last Congress when disputes over abortion funding played a crucial role. Only this new bill would go further than anything ever considered by Congress because it would make the so-called Hyde Amendment permanent and applicable ...
Health Care Repeal: Meet the 3 Dems Who Voted to Overturn the Law
By David Knowles - AOL NewsThe U.S. House of Representatives voted to scrap the nation's new health care reform law today in a party-line vote -- with three exceptions. Democrats Dan Boren, Mike McIntyre and Mike Ross all sided with all 242 House Republicans in voting for a repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Given that Democrats still control the Senate, and that President Barack Obama has promised a veto of any attempts to down the 10-month-old legislation, today's vote has been seen as largely a symbolic gesture. Surge Desk has a look at each of the renegade Democrats. Dan Boren Oklahoma Rep. ...
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