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'Obamacare' plaintiff Brown's bankruptcy: Instant karma?  March
9, 2012 |  6:32 am  Supreme Court in Washington What do you call
it when someone who is suing to overturn the healthcare reform
law files for bankruptcy, listing $4,500 in unpaid medical
bills?  Karma? Fate? A lucky break for President Obama?  Really,
you can't make this stuff up. Here's what The Times' David
Savage wrote Thursday:  Mary Brown, a 56-year-old Florida woman
who owned a small auto repair shop but had no health insurance,
became the lead plaintiff challenging President Obama's
healthcare law because she was passionate about the issue.
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 C