The Affordable Care Act Challenges - the Individual Mandate & the Commerce Clause
Channel: oyeztoday
Date: 2012-03-13

From March 26-28, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear six hours of arguments relating to the Affordable Care Act, President Obama's healthcare reform legislation.

The most watched question the Court will address concerns the so-called individual mandate provision and whether the requirement that nearly all U.S. citizens obtain health insurance is within Congress' power under the Constitution's Commerce Clause.

Prof. Sheldon Nahmod of the IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law and author of the Nahmod Law blog discusses the issue.