Sometime before this day is over, and it is approaching noon on the East Coast, Roger Vinson of the U.S. District Court in Pensacola, Florida, is expected to publish his decision of ObamaCare and a lawsuit brought against the government challenging the individual mandate making the bill's funding possible and enforceable [on a national level].
While no one knows how the judge will decide, we do know that Judge Vinson issued an earlier legal opinion last October which included this statement. "The power that the individual mandate seeks to harness is simply without prior precedent."
There have been three Federal Court decisions regarding the health care bill, two in support of the current individual mandate provision and one against.
Most constitutional experts believe the individual mandate to be unconstitutional in that, for the first time in US history, the Federal Government has ordered every US citizen to purchase a product intended for their protection. More than that, the "product," in time, will fall under the total and complete control of the Federal Government.
While the bill addresses certain problematic issues, it fails in the most important of criteria, it cannot pay for itself. In fact, within the second decade of the this bill - beginning in2025 - the cost for ObamaCare is estimated to rise to as much as 11 trillion dollars for the decade or more than a trillion per year.
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