As he gave President Barack Obama the crucial 60th vote to ram ObamaCare into law, U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) showed his strong support for ObamaCare’s onerous individual mandate. In fact, Tester even voted specifically to kill an amendment that would have removed the individual mandate from ObamaCare.
Today, a federal appeals court issued the latest in a series of rulings against Tester and Obama’s individual mandate. As The Hill newspaper reports:
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the individual coverage mandate in healthcare reform is unconstitutional… The ruling from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals comes in the highest-profile challenge to the new law’s requirement that most people buy insurance. The suit was filed by 26 states.
“Despite his continued attempts to defend ObamaCare, yet another federal court confirmed today that Jon Tester’s individual mandate is unconstitutional,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Chris Bond. “Once again, Tester and Obama’s liberal agenda in Washington puts them at odds with Montanans, and with the law.”
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