Health Care Ruling: Good News for Reform Backers

Ian Millhiser explains why a district court judge's ruling on the Affordable Care Act is good news for reform supporters.

Yes, Judge Hudson did strike down one provision of the landmark health care law, but his opinion is so poorly reasoned, so bereft of legal analysis and so inconsistent with precedent that it has no chance of convincing the Supreme Court to strike down this law. If this is the best that opponents of health reform have to offer, than the act’s supporters have nothing to fear.

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