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Michele Bachmann says 11th Circuit heeded her on health care law

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Michele Bachmann became the first presidential candidate to praise the 11th Circuit Appeals Court ruling invalidating the Affordable Health Care Act's individual mandate, calling it a "repudiation" of the national health care law.

"It is my hope to see this ruling will be upheld," Bachmann told reporters in Indianola. "The courts now have confirmed what all of us have been saying, that the individual mandate is unconstitutional."