High court rules ObamaCare mandate penalty a tax - contradicting Obama

By Jake Gibson

Published December 23, 2015

The Supreme Court upheld most of President Obama's Health Care law, including the controversial individual mandate that nearly all Americans obtain health insurance or be subject to a fine.

The court said that fine ultimately amounts to a tax, and therefore the government does have the power to impose it.

This however is at odds with President Obama's comments about the law possibly imposing a new tax. "For us to say that you've got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase," said Obama during an interview with ABC in September, 2009.

When asked if he rejected the notion that his law amounted to a tax increase President Obama replied, "I absolutely reject that notion."

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