UPDATED AND CORRECTED: 10:30 a.m., June 20, 2011
MASSDEVICE ON CALL — A $19.9 billion dollar spending bill banning the federal government from enforcing the individual insurance mandate in President Barack Obama’s health care reform law passed through the House Appropriations Committee this week.
The mandate isn’t set to take effect until 2014, but GOP legislators have been eager to knock it down before then.