Something not noted in the earlier decision finding Obamacare to be unconstitutional, it has been reported (and I haven't seen written reports on this or the published opinion, so I'm running with something I normally wouldn't address) that Judge Vinson ruled against the states' argument that the mandatory expansion of state funded medicare programs was unconstitutional. This means that unfunded mandates from the federal government to the states are alive and well, which is one of the ways federal government passes off and hides costs, by making the states pay for programs. This is a disturbing practice at best in that there is no support in the Constitution for the proposition that the federal government can mandate a program and then tell the states that they are required to fund that program. If the Senate were still a body representing the states, I imagine this practice would not have gone as far as it has.
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