Mary Brown, 'Obamacare' foe -- and broke
Sunday, March 11, 2012 - 05:00
in Psychology & Sociology
A woman whose case is before the Supreme Court is an exemplar of a problem the healthcare law was designed to address.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.