Federal Judge Rules Health-Care Overhaul Provision is Constitutional

A federal judge yesterday refused to grant a request for a preliminary injunction against the health-care overhaul law, saying Congress’s imposition of the individual mandate isn’t unconstitutional.

Here’s the WSJ story. And here’s how our friends at the WSJ Law Blog described the decision by U.S. District Court Judge George Steeh:

Steeh?s analysis under the Commerce Clause was broken into two parts. First, he found that the economic decisions that the Act regulates as to how to pay for health care services affect the interstate health care market.

Next Steeh found that the individual mandate, the provision that requires everyone to have health coverage, was essential to the act?s larger goal of regulating ?the interstate business of health insurance.?

For all the details, read the rest of the Law Blog’s post.

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