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BOSTON (CBS) – The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the key to President Obama’s health care law, ruling Thursday that the individual mandate that requires everyone to buy insurance or face fines is constitutuional.

The mandate will go into effect in 2014.

The ruling means Congress did not exceed its authority when it ordered that all Americans must have health insurance.

The Obama administration used Massachusetts as a model for the Affordable Care Act, which the Supreme Court reviewed in three days of oral arguments back in March.

Mitt Romney, who’s running against Obama in the November election, signed the Massachusetts plan into law in April 2006 when he was governor.