On Friday January, 6, 2011 AAPS along with individual physicians submitted a third brief in as many months advising the Supreme Court that the individual mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional and that the entire law must be thrown out.
The Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom also joined AAPS in this brief. The CCHF exists to support patient and doctor freedom, medical innovation and the right of citizens to a confidential patient-doctor relationship. Learn more about CCHF at http://www.cchfreedom.org.
The amicus brief reads in part:
“ACA undermines, in fundamental and dangerous ways, the practice of medicine, and harms patients. Amici argue that severance of the individual mandate of Section 1501 without invalidating all of ACA will improperly burden the practice of medicine as well as the dockets of this Court, the Courts of Appeals and the District Courts, for many years to come.”
A PDF version of the entire brief is available at: http://aapsonline.org/fl-v-hhs-amicus-01-06-2011.pdf.
Information about other actions taken by AAPS to combat ObamaCare in the courts can be found at http://www.aapsonline.org/index.php/articles/category/obamacare.
In March 2010 AAPS filed suit against PPACA in United States District Court. Information about this suit is available at http://www.aapsonline.org/hhslawsuit.
