US healthcare law ruled unconstitutional

US President Barack Obama

Source: Press TV
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/193705.html

A US Court of Appeals has ruled against President Barack Obama's health care reform law, stating that its main provision goes against the Constitution.

On Friday, the three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court in Atlanta ruled unconstitutional President Obama's health care law that requires everyone to own health care insurance in America's essentially private system or incur a penalty, AFP reported.

The Court adds that this law exceeds Congressional powers, as it forces Americans to buy insurance coverage.

But the Court has also ruled that the remainder of the health care law would remain in effect, which extends coverage to an extra 32 million people.

The Obama administration has dismissed the Appeals Court verdict, with the US Supreme Court being expected to later issue a ruling on a portion of the law.

The controversial $940-billion plan, which aims to overhaul the US health care system, promises reforms that would provide health coverage for nearly 30 million American citizens who currently lack it.

Republicans have pledged to derail the new law by cutting off funding for it.

The bill was signed into law in March 23, 2010 following months of heated debate.

Experts now predict a gridlock in Congress over the next two years in the process of implementing the health care reform's provisions.

Free Health Care vs Free War Toys

Opinion : Stewart Brennan

Free Health Care for the American people or free War toys for other nations?

I believe that health care is a human right and that no one should be turned away. Big business wants you to be paralysed by controversy on how to upkeep it. Health care is funded by our taxes and it is working very well in my country thank you, and I am grateful of it. The free world really cannot understand why the USA does not have free health care for its citizens. Every Industrialized nation in the free world has had it since the end of World War 2 or there about.

Let me ask you this; is it alright for the Bush government to send 43 billion plus US dollars in war toys to Israel and Egypt by borrowing from the Federal Reserve? Or would it be better to invest in the American people?

The federal reserve as you probably know or maybe did not know, is OWNED by the members of "The council of foreign Relations" the same group from where war is decided and funded, the same group that does not want you to have free health care, and it is also the same group that your president GW Bush and company are members. The big insurance companies are owned by the same people who are the majority shareholders in war munitions and the time Warner media.

Do you want free health care or not? It has NOTHING to do with cost...100 Billion dollars to guarantee health care to all American citizens is a drop in the bucket compared to the Arms your government is sending to fund both sides in war throughout the world!

Step back and ask yourself, Do I want free health care or not? Don't bog yourself down with who pays! You already paid for this human right for god’s sake!

Stewart Brennan