A Modest Portion of Sanity

Today a Federal appeals court struck down the individual mandate portion of Obamacare.

The divided three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the so-called individual mandate, which is considered the centerpiece of the law, siding with 26 states that had sued to block the law. But the panel didn’t go as far as a lower court that had invalidated the entire overhaul as unconstitutional.

Expect the White House to appeal this ruling to the full 11th Circuit or, possibly, to the Supreme Court.

The states had appealed the constitutionality of the mandate, which based its draconian re-write of our basic right to privacy on, of all things, the Interstate Commerce clause.

If the ruling holds, the economic underpinnings of Obamacare - already dubious - evaporate.