Obamacare is likely facing its last stop before it heads to the Supreme Court in 2012. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta will hear arguments Wednesday in the biggest Obamacare case in the country. This is the Obama administration’s appeal in Florida v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It’s the case in which President Obama suffered his most embarrassing defeat at the district court level when Judge Roger Vinson struck down not only the linchpin of Obamacare — its individual mandate — but the entire 2,700-page law with it.
There are several major Obamacare cases across the country, but Florida v. HHS is the biggest. It involves 26 states — represented by Bush-era Solicitor General Paul Clement — the National Federation of Independent Business and a couple of uninsured individuals — represented by Supreme Court lawyers Michael Carvin and Gregory Katsas.
