Golden Gate Restaurant Association To Take San Francisco's Employer Mandate To U.S. Supreme Court, Obama Stays Silent
Tuesday Jul 21, 2009Golden Gate Restaurant Association To Take San Francisco's Employer Mandate To U.S. Supreme Court, Obama Stays Silent in Group Health Insurance
The Golden Gate Restaurant Association is becoming a litigious force
when it comes to overturning a city ordinance which mandates that mid and
large-sized businesses pony up money for funding the city-wide universal health
care law.
In the suit, the Restaurant Association contends that the mandate violates a law that says only the federal government can regulate employer-sponsored health benefits and group health insurance plans.
The association already lost in the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and is now turning to the U.S. Supreme Court for a ruling, reported the San Francisco Gate.
One thing worth noting, wrote the SF Gate article, was that the Obama Administration was largely silent on the issue. No statements for, against, or even about the case, nothing. President Obama does, however, praise Mayor Gavin Newsom for his work providing health care for everyone in his city.
Whether the nation’s highest court will hear the case won’t be determined until early October of this year.
