Florida leads multi-state challenge to ObamaCare, petitions SCOTUS to review decision

Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks during a cabinet meeting. (Photo from state of Florida)Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a statement on Wednesday about the 26-state challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act commonly called ObamaCare.

Bondi said Florida and the other 25 states filed a Petition for Writ of Certiorari asking the US Supreme Court to review the decision of the 11^th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Bondi said ObamaCare is “an affront on Americans’ individual liberty.” She also said, “Our country urgently needs a final ruling from the US Supreme Court.”

The urgency is real. States and individual employers are scrambling to make sense of a law Democrats didn’t even read before passing.

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Imploding pro-ObamaCare judges' rulings

US District Court judges George Carem Steeh and Norman K. Moon declared the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act commonly called ObamaCare constitutional. 

Steeh and Moon argued the federal government can force an individual to purchase health insurance. A key argument by both judges rests on the concept of cost-shifting. Few media have explored the argument; socialist progressives applauded it. However, both judges appear to have based their arguments on politics rather than reason.

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Waivers, grandfathered plans, Medicare cuts and lawsuits plague PPACA

Welfare state proponents like Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) are the most enthusiastic cheerleaders for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, popularly called ObamaCare. But the new law is mired in chaos and a conservative think tank said the impact on one Medicare plan will actually harm large numbers of minorities.

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AG McCollum to Fox: Mandate is ‘middle pole’ in Obamacare tent

Florida attorney general Bill McCollum told Fox News on Tuesday the individual mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is like the “pole in the middle of the tent.” If the mandate falls, the whole tent collapses. McCollum said that’s because “there’s no other funding mechanism.”

McCollum was one of the first to point out the vulnerability of the PPACA (commonly called ObamaCare) because of the lack of a severability clause in the bill.

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