Yet Another Court Voids Obamacare’s Insurance Mandates | Our American Constitution
Independence Institute constitutional scholar Rob Natelson comments on the Eleventh Circuit ruling the individual mandate in Obamacare to be unconstitutional.
Massachusetts health care mess
In a study that’s likely the first of its kind, the Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University near Boston took a look at health care costs in Massachusetts and found that they have increased significantly since RomneyCare became the law
Mandatory insurance & regulating inactivity: a radical constitutional departure
Ilya Somin of George Mason School of Law says that the recent appellate court decision finding the individual mandate constitutional undermines federalism, misconstrues the boundaries of congressional authority, and lays the groundwork for limitless federal mandates
RomneyCare = ObamaCare: “Mass. health care costs outpace nation”
Despite “reform,” passed by aspiring Presidential candidate Mitt Romney as Massachusetts governor, both medical spending and prices of medical care increased in the state.
ObamaCare’s tough day in court
Assuming the high court deigns to hear the case, [there’s] awkward reality that one of the Supreme Court justices, Elena Kagan, was obviously involved in orchestrating the legal defense of ObamaCare. Thus, there will be legitimate calls for her to recuse herself from any case involving that law.
White House: Buy Health Insurance or Be Poor
“[T]he government’s latest position that the [health control] law doesn’t really require people to buy health insurance at all. We have the option instead of earning less money. “
Mitt Romney, mandatory health insurance, & the phony free-rider justification
“[I]f the individual mandate’s purpose is to prevent free riders from shifting the cost of their emergency care to others, all it should require is … insurance to cover a trip to the emergency room. Instead, both RomneyCare and ObamaCare require everyone to be covered for numerous benefits going far beyond emergency care.” – Jeff Jacoby
Health care updates from Cato Institute
The latest health care commentary by Cato Institute scholars on: Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, mandatory insurance as elitist, unconstitutional, and based on phony justification.
Insurance company fined for selling illegal policies in Massachusetts
From Healthcare Finance News, April 26 2011: According to the [Massachusetts] AG’s complaint, U.S. Life sold health insurance policies in Massachusetts that were not authorized for sale and did not cover health services required by Massachusetts law. The mandated services at issue included mental health, maternity healthcare, infertility care, pap test screening, mammography and preventive […]
The Road to Socialized Medicine Is Paved With Preexisting Conditions – Part 3
Yaron Brook & Don Watkins of the Ayn Rand Institute write: [W]ithout exception, the actual problems they point to are not caused by the market, but by government intervention–and the outcomes they denounce which are a product of the market are not really problems at all. Take the preexisting condition “crisis.” On the one hand, […]
Summarizing the legal case against ObamaCare
The Cato Institute has published a new white paper (22 pages) by its chairman Robert Levy: The Case Against President Obama’s Health Care Reform: A Primer for Nonlawyers. It summarizes why mandator insurance is unconstitutional.
David Kopel: Why Obamacare mandate penalty can’t be a tax
Writing in the Orange County Register, Independence Institute Research Director Dave Kopel explains why the penalty for not buying government-approved health plan cannot be a tax.
