The Wall Street Journal reports that a federal appeals court in Cincinnati upheld the 2010 federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, handing the Obama administration its biggest victory yet as challenges to the law advance toward the Supreme Court. “The decision, from the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, marked the first time a Republican-appointed judge has found the [act] constitutional, after federal district courts hearing separate challenges divided along partisan lines. The court ruled that the law's requirement that most Americans maintain health insurance fell within Congress's constitutional authority over interstate commerce.” The New York Times also reported on the decision.
Kaiser Health News is keeping track of the status of all the health law court challenges.
