Lead Plaintiff Against Affordable Care Act Files For Bankruptcy Because Of Medical Debt

Mary Brown just doesn’t want to be forced to have health insurance.

…[she] was uninsured last fall when her husband’s medical bills stacked up to $4,500. That, combined with other debt they had accumulated, led the couple to file for bankruptcy:

She is challenging President Obama’s health care plan because she vehemently opposes it.

Brown “doesn’t have insurance. She doesn’t want to pay for it. And she doesn’t want the government to tell her she has to have it,” said Karen Harned, a lawyer for the National Federation of Independent Business. Brown is a plaintiff in the federation’s case, which the Supreme Court plans to hear later this month.

But court records reveal that Brown and her husband filed for bankruptcy last fall with $4,500 in unpaid medical bills. Those bills could change Brown from a symbol of proud independence into an example of exactly the problem the healthcare law was intended to address.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.