Supreme Court Could Be Lining Up Against Obamacare

In a second day of argument, the US Supreme Court today seemed to indicate that the majority of justices are coming down against the individual mandate in the health care reform act known as Obamacare. Particular attention was being paid…

By Paul Ausick
Published March 27, 2012, 2:53pm ET · 1 min read

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In a second day of argument, the US Supreme Court today seemed to indicate that the majority of justices are coming down against the individual mandate in the health care reform act known as Obamacare. Particular attention was being paid to Justice Anthony Kennedy, long considered to be the swing vote between the four conservative and four liberal justices.

Kennedy’s noted at one point that the individual mandate, which requires Americans to purchase health insurance, “changes the relationship of the government to the individual in the very fundamental way.”

Tomorrow the court will hear arguments related to how health care reform would operate without the individual mandate.

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Paul Ausick

Paul Ausick has been writing for 247Wallst.com for more than a decade. He has written extensively on investing in the energy, defense, and technology sectors. In a previous life, he wrote technical documentation and managed a marketing communications group in Silicon Valley.

He has a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Chicago and now lives in Montana, where he fishes for trout in the summer and stays inside during the winter.

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