For a quick overview of the five major constitutional issues that have produced a tsunami of lawsuits challenging ObamaCare, Quin Hillyer provides the following summary:
1) The individual mandate:
Every one of the cases involves a challenge, on one ground or another, to Obamacare’s “individual mandate” forcing the purchase of health insurance. The argument is simple: Challengers […]
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FIVE REASONS OCARE IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL
OBAMACARE IS GOING DOWN
Peter Ferrara has great piece at the American Spectator explaining why he believes the U.S. Supreme Court will pull the plug on ObamaCare. He concludes the following from the recent ruling by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals that the individual mandate is unconstitutional:
The bottom line takeaway from this decision is that if this is how Judges Hull, Dubina, Hudson, […]
VIDEO: SEBELIUS LIES TO CONGRESS ABOUT IPAB
Last April, I wrote a column for the American Spectator about ObamaCare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). Among the issues I pointed out was that IPAB’s “recommendations” require an act of Congress to reverse:
In theory, IPAB can only propose changes to Medicare’s payment rates. In practice, however, the board’s proposals will take effect automatically unless Congress passes […]
THE GREAT ONE STOOPS TO QUOTE ME
Mark Levin built a segment of his Friday show around my American Spectator column on the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). He reads the most important excerpts, and doesn’t shrink from calling IPAB by its proper name—-death panel. Here’s the audio clip:
IPAB IS AN ACRONYM FOR DEATH PANEL
My latest column for the American Spectator delves deeper into the unsavory realities of the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB):
IPAB was created pursuant to section 3403 of the ironically named Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), and its ostensible purpose is to “control costs.â€? In reality, it will do nothing at all about costs. Instead, […]
IPAB: MAY I DEBUNK A TALKING POINT?
Since the President was was kind enough to remind everyone about ObamaCare’s death panel, the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), the main lefty talking point is the following (which I saw repeated almost verbatim at a dozen progressive blogs and “news” sites before I got bored):
The ACA severely limits the scope of IPAB recommendations, specifically excluding […]