Health Care Reform Federal Judge Rules Provision of Health Care Reform Law Is Unconstitutional by Rosemary Piser on December 13, 2010 Rosemary Piser Author More in Health Care Reform: Governor Newsom Announces Affordable CalRx® Insulin, $11 a Pen, Will Soon Be Available for Purchase October 19, 2025 How the Government Shutdown Is Hitting the Health Care System – and What the Battle Over ACA Subsidies Means October 4, 2025 Black Americans Still Suffer Worse Health. Here’s Why There’s So Little Progress. November 23, 2024 VIRGINIA—(ENEWSPF)—December 13, 2010. U.S. District Court Judge Henry E. Hudson, an appointee of President George W. Bush, has just ruled that the individual mandate provision of the Obama Health Care Reform legislation is unconstitutional.