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
HSIEH: DON’T BLAME CAPITALISM FOR HIGH HEALTH INSURANCE COSTS
Over at The Undercurrent, Paul Hsieh has a good column about the high cost of benefit mandates that states—and now the feds—impose on health insurance carriers:
State regulators currently require health insurers to include numerous “mandatory benefits,” whether customers wish to purchase them or not. The exact mandatory benefits vary from state to state, but might include services […]
MARK LEVIN: SUPREME COURT COULD UPHOLD OBAMACARE
Levin is a lawyer whose experience includes an advisory role in the Reagan adminstration. He knows what he’s talking about and says we should not be overconfident that the Supreme Court will do the right thing on ObamaCare. He’s particularly worried about Justice Anthony Kennedy:
Four justices will definitely vote to uphold the mandate (Kagan, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor) […]
OBAMACARE’S LAST BEST HOPE
In today’s American Spectator I take a look at the latest constitutional straw at which ObamaCare advocates find themselves desperately grasping. It depends on the DOJ’s ability to prove the President lied when said the mandate isn’t a tax, plus selling the theory (raised by Judge Motz of the 4th Circuit) that the Supreme Court […]
VIDEO: WHY THE INDIVIDUAL MANDATE IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL
Last week, the American Enterprise Institute hosted an event called “Will ObamaCare be More or Less Appealing Before the Supreme Court?” In this video, Gregory Katsas, counsel for the National Federation of Independent Businesses, explains why the Constitution’s Commerce Clause does not permit Congress to force Americans to buy health insurance:
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WOLF ON WHY THE OBAMACARE FIGHT IS ABOUT MUCH MORE THAN HEALTH CARE
In his latest column for the Washington Times. Milton Wolf discusses something that is too often forgotten as we watch the legal battles over ObamaCare’s individual mandate—-this is a fight for individual liberty:
Freedom is man’s power to exercise his own faculties as he chooses as long as he prohibits no other man from doing the same. […]
YET ANOTHER JUDGE RULES OBAMACARE’S MANDATE UNCONSTITUTIONAL
Well, if there is anyone left who still harbors doubts that this thing is going to the top, this latest ruling should clear them up:
U.S. District Judge Christopher Conner in Harrisburg on Tuesday said the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution did not grant Congress the power to include a provision requiring nearly all Americans […]
FOURTH CIRCUIT CALLS OBAMA A LIAR
When the Dems passed ObamaCare, they denied that the penalty for not complying with the individual mandate was a tax. They knew that would be politically toxic, so they justified the mandate by invoking Congress’ power to regulate interstate commerce. Here’s the President denying that the penalty is a tax:
However, as the various ObamaCare lawsuits began working […]
SUPREME COURT ONCE AGAIN ABETS DOJ STALL TACTICS ON OBAMACARE
The arguments the DOJ has put forth in defense of the individual mandate have been all over the place, but Obama’s lawyers have been very consistent in one area—they stall and delay at every opportunity. They know they have a weak case, so they want to put off their date with the Supreme Court as long […]
PROFESSOR OBAMA HOLDS FORTH ON THE MANDATE
My latest column for the American Spectator discusses a couple of preposterous statements made by the President concerning ObamaCare’s ever-increasing troubles in the court system. For example, in response to a question from an admirer in Iowa, he said:
If the Supreme Court follows existing precedent, existing law, it should be upheld without a problem.
He then added:
There’s nothing wrong with […]