In a Supreme Court amicus brief submitted January 11, 2012, National Senior Citizens Law Center’s Rochelle Bobroff, acting as Counsel of Record, writes that that the Affordable Care Act’s minimum coverage provision or individual mandate “falls squarely within Congress’ authority to regulate interstate commerce” and therefore is Constitutional. The arguments in support of the minimum coverage provision set forth in the brief have been frequently cited by federal Judges and most recently by the Department of Justice as proving the Constitutionality of the health reform law…READ THE BRIEF
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