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Mary Brown, whose case against the 2010 healthcare reform law is pending before the Supreme Court, argues that the government shouldn't be able to force her to carry health insurance.
Joined by three other individuals and a small-business trade association, she's asking the justices to rule that the law's insurance mandate is unconstitutional and that the rest of the act should be thrown out with it.
But new revelations about her own situation make the case for the other side.
Brown and her husband have fallen on hard times since filing the lawsuit, largely because their auto repair business in Florida failed.
The couple have filed for bankruptcy protection, asking a federal court to wipe out close to $60,000 in consumer debts.
Significantly, their unpaid bills include thousands owed to a local hospital and physicians group and out-of-state medical specialists.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinionla/la-ed-health-law-plaintiff-20120311,0,3670021.story
Joined by three other individuals and a small-business trade association, she's asking the justices to rule that the law's insurance mandate is unconstitutional and that the rest of the act should be thrown out with it.
But new revelations about her own situation make the case for the other side.
Brown and her husband have fallen on hard times since filing the lawsuit, largely because their auto repair business in Florida failed.
The couple have filed for bankruptcy protection, asking a federal court to wipe out close to $60,000 in consumer debts.
Significantly, their unpaid bills include thousands owed to a local hospital and physicians group and out-of-state medical specialists.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinionla/la-ed-health-law-plaintiff-20120311,0,3670021.story