Goudy-Bachman v. United States Department of Health & Human Services

MEMORANDUM

CHRISTOPHER C. CONNER, District Judge.

One of the benefits of the myriad challenges to the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (hereinafter “Health Care Act” or the “Act”), Pub. L. No. 111-148, 124 Stat. 119 (2010), as amended by the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010, Pub.L. No. 111-152, 124 Stat. 1029, is the distillation of relevant issues. As a threshold matter, I emphasize, as Judge Vinson emphasized in Florida v. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 780 F.Supp.2d 1256 (N.D.Fla.2011), that this case is not…