Ruling Suspends Personal Mandate

A Federal judge in Virginia has ruled that a central tenant of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional. Judge Henry Hudson deemed that the Minimal Essential Care Coverage provision, which mandates that most Americans carry health insurance starting in 2014, oversteps “the constitutional boundaries” of the commerce clause. “The unchecked expansion of congressional power to the limits suggested by the Minimum Essential Coverage Provision would invite unbridled exercise of federal police powers,” Hudson’s ruling states. "At its core, this dispute is not simply about regulating the business of insurance - or crafting a scheme of universal health insurance coverage – it’s about an individual's right to choose to participate."

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