Judge tosses challenge to Obama healthcare law

[The Straight Story]

Judge tosses challenge to Obama healthcare law

WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Virginia on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit challenging the landmark healthcare law championed by President Barack Obama, upholding key provisions that require health insurance coverage.

The challenge, one of several attempting to strike down the law passed earlier this year, was brought by the conservative Christian Liberty University and individuals who said the law would violate several parts of the U.S. Constitution.

U.S. District Judge Norman Moon ruled that the law requiring individuals to buy health insurance coverage as well as requiring employers to buy coverage for their employees was legal under the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

Moon found that without the coverage requirements in the law, the cost of health insurance would increase because the number of insured individuals would decline, "precisely the harms that Congress sought to address with the Act's regulatory measures."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40442287

[Kennah]

1. Thirty, Love. Advantage, President Obama

[Hepburn]

2. KnR

Hope we see a lot more of this from the federal bench!