A three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has now weighed in and two of the judges, one Republican and one Democratic appointee, ruled unconstitutional the health care legislation’s mandate requiring people to have health insurance. That’s the good news....
Although as a presidential candidate, Barack Obama criticized the mandate; now the Obama Justice Department says the mandate is absolutely necessary to make the law work. It’s just one of many Obama flip-flops in his long and sordid drive to control virtually every part of the U.S. health care system.
Another of the important flip-flops playing a role in the 11th Circuit’s decision is whether the mandate is a tax. In the fall of 2009, the president told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos in a televised interview that the mandate absolutely was not a tax. Now, of course, the Justice Department claims it absolutely is.
