Wednesday, February 2, 2011

U.S. health reform: Obama's prestige fails again in court

It is a new legal setback for U.S. President Obama: A second Federal Court has declared the law to his health care reform unconstitutional. Now the dispute over the insurance requirement will likely end up before the Supreme Court. Washington - The prestigious project of U.S. President Barack Obama, his health care reform is not justified.

This was decided on Monday for a second federal court. The court in Florida said on Monday that Congress acquire the obligation of every citizen, health insurance, had exceeded its powers. The insurance requirement violates the Constitution. That sense, the entire law invalid, the judge said.


Obama's government has announced to contest the verdict. Back in December a federal court in Virginia had declared health care reform in part unconstitutional. About a dozen federal judge dismissed claims against the law from it. The decision of the Federal Court in Florida but is now virtually established, that the dispute over land reform in the Supreme Court of the U.S..

Altogether now two lower courts have sustained the law, two against it. The White House but was optimistic that it will triumph in the end. After a bitter political dispute, the reform was passed just last spring by Congress. The focus is on the so-called "individual mandate" - the obligation of every citizen to purchase health insurance by 2014.

Otherwise face a penalty. The comprehensive and complex law provides for the purchase of insurance also state aid. 30 million Americans are not currently have health insurance. Obama's Republican opponents have said the reversal of the reform as one of its main objectives. They fear escalating costs and the loss of jobs because of additional burdens on business.

That since the congressional elections in November by Republican-dominated House of Representatives voted in mid-January for the return. In the Senate, the Republicans but do not have the required majority, President Obama also may stop any decision of the Congress with his veto. Obama has stated a willingness to negotiate on some "modifications" to improve the law.

But on the key elements want to hold him and his Democrats.

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