Excerpt from a Supreme Court Brief Opposing the Affordable Care Act. (OBAMACARE)

…The breathtaking scope of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“PPACA”) extends to more than one sixth of the economy of the United States. PPACA was passed by the U.S. Senate on Christmas Eve, December 24, 2009. At that time, the national debt was nearly $12.135 trillion, exceeding the statutory debt limit. Upon passage of the statute in March 2010, private sector job growth halted and dropped sharply in the following months.

PPACA contains nine titles and hundreds of new laws scattered throughout the U.S. Code. The approximately 2000-page bill in its entirety was their vote. As then-Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, said shortly after the Congressional vote, “We have to pass the bill so you find out what’s in it.”

The nature of the minimum coverage provision compelling all individuals in the United States to acquire and maintain health insurance is an unprecedented assertion of Federal Government authority at the expense of the States as well as an assault on individual liberty. For the first time in history, Congress has required private citizens to buy an expensive product from a private company every month for the rest of their lives, just by virtue of being U.S. citizens. In addition, PPACA mandates a significant expansion of the States’ Medicaid schemes. Under PPACA, States must spend an enormous sum of additional dollars. They are required to broaden their Medicaid eligibility standards to accommodate as much as fifty percent more individuals, many of whom are compelled to enroll by the mandate, or else face a tax penalty…