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With there having been numerous appeals, countless petitions, and myriads of requests to repeal the law, only a few are of note. The opponents of the Affordable Care Act then decided took the fight to the federal courts, to challenge the constitutionality of the legislation. An example of one of the federal court appeals, is Thomas More Law Center v. Barack H. Obama, which was ruled upon in June 2011. The plaintiff, Thomas More Law Center, commonly referred to as TMLC, is a national public interest law firm located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The defendants were President Obama and the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius. TMLC’s employees receive health care insurance through an employer healthcare plan sponsored and contributed to by TMLC. TMLC’s healthcare plan is subject to the provisions and regulations of the Afford Care Act. TMLC argued that Congress did not have the authority to require private citizens to purchase and maintain health care insurance coverage, under penalty of federal law in accordance to the Affordable Care Act. TMLC appealed to the federal court, to review to the federal court of the opinion of the Sixth Circuit, which is a district court. The Sixth Circuit denied the appeal by the TMLC, the panel upheld the individual mandate provision of the Affordable Care Act, as falling within the power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce, and ruled to uphold the constitutionality of the mandate as a proper exercise of Congress’s Commerce Clause authority. As follows, the federal court denied TMLC petition and concluded that Congress had the power to pass the law because it affected interstate commerce and was part of a broader regulatory scheme. In November 2011, the S...

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..."We heard multiple times that everything was on track. We now know that was not the case." At first it seemed to be all about the Affordable Care Act, popularly or un-popularly known as "Obamacare." In fact, the confusion begins with the name. As a CNBC poll found, Americans were more likely to be opposed to "Obamacare" than to the "Affordable Care Act," even though they're the same thing. That's a tribute to the Republican side's re-branding skills, which by some measures have been more successful against Democrats than in favor of Republicans. Yet the poll also showed Americans were more likely to answer "don't know" when asked how they felt about the ACA. In total, 46 percent of those polled were opposed to "Obamacare" and 12 percent said they didn't know what it was. But when asked about the "Affordable Care Act," only thirty-seven percent opposed it, but thirty