Lawmakers Reject Arguments on Constitutionality, Pass Health Care Reform Bill

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Lawmakers Reject Arguments on Constitutionality, Pass Health Care Reform Bill

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Conservative pundits and advocates, including the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society loudly argued that aspects of the legislation, including the mandate for individuals without health care coverage to purchase it would prove unconstitutional. But many constitutional law experts and progressive advocates countered that Congress has the constitutional authority to pass such policy. On the eve of the vote, ACS published an Issue Brief by longtime public policy advocate and Washington, D.C. attorney Simon Lazarus refuting arguments that individual health care mandates are constitutionally suspect.

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1. Interesting how the Heritage Foundation is suddenly interested in the Constitution.

Go figure.