Remember last year when US President Barack Obama said his dying grandmother’s hip-replacement surgery made him wonder if such procedures were practical?
Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, died at age 86 — two days before Obama was elected president.
“You just get into some very difficult moral issues” when considering whether “to give my grandmother, or everybody else’s aging grandparents or parents, a hip replacement when they’re terminally ill,” Obama famously said in an interview.
His words sent a ripple of fear through the elderly community. That was a turning point in Obama’s young presidency. It was the moment when many of his supporters saw Obama for who he really was: a socialist.
Obama’s words came back to haunt him yesterday when a federal judge ruled that a mandate within his ObamaCare was unconstitutional.
Specifically, Obama’s mandate that every American purchase health insurance — or be fined, or even arrested — was unconstitutional.
Critics have long argued that Obama’s health care was designed to benefit insurance companies only. The ruling is the government’s first loss in a series of challenges to the law mounted in federal courts in as many as 23 states.
U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson in Richmond, Virginia, said yesterday that the mandate on individuals in President Barack Obama’s health-care legislation goes beyond Congress’s powers to regulate interstate commerce.
“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,” wrote Hudson. READ MORE
