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When Bureaucarts Stymie Science
“If we can save only one child’s life…” is a phrase frequently used to justify one initiative or another. It has been invoked in recent years to promote causes ranging from the installation of...
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The ‘Commerce Clause Mandate’
In “Obamacare vs. The Commerce Clause,” Richard Epstein provides a devastating critique of Supreme Court commerce clause case law since the New Deal. Because it is “an indefensible line of cases,”...
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Mitch Daniels’ news flash
There was actually a news-worthy moment in Mitch Daniels response to President Obama’s State of the Union address. He said: Decades ago, for instance, we could afford to send millionaires pension...
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The insanity of health insurance
I just received a lovely email from my old friend, Donna Brazile. OK, we’re not old friends. For some reason she has decided to put me on her email list. She writes: This week, the Senate votes on a...
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On the Constitutionality of the Contraception Mandate
There are many horrible features about the President’s birth control mandate, with respect to religious institutions. The Catholic Church, rightly in my view, regards this federal imposition as a...
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The Contraception Hawks
For decades American politics has been poisoned by the great abortion debate. Never mind that the economy is in the dumps, the national debt is spiraling out of control, the nation’s infrastructure is...
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The Cigarette Smokescreen
Cigarette smoking is one of the major preventable scourges of human health. Public health experts and regulators—and yes, even smokers—know it. But by being politically correct and focusing on unproven...
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Obamacare: An Unconstitutional Misadventure
This week, the United States Supreme Court has on its plate the defining legal issue of our time—the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which I have already...
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The Dubitable Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act
By now everyone knows that the Supreme Court will take up the watershed case of this century, when it examines the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—the ACA or...
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Observations on ObamaCare
There are a number of constitutional and logical slips in the seductive argument that Paul Krugman puts forward in favor of the constitutionality of the individual mandate. First, the question why any...
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ObamaCare’s Commissar’s Conceit
As a writer on Soviet planning, I am struck by its parallels with Obama Care. Both believe their planning is “scientific” and executed by “the best of the best,” who know what is best for ordinary...
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O’s ugly ‘warning’
By all accounts, President Obama’s lawyers did a poor job of defending the constitutionality of his signature health-care-reform law in the Supreme Court last week. So he’s rearguing the case himself....
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The President’s Comments on the Supreme Court
Just about every player in connection with the President’s remarks about the Supreme Court seem to me to be acting oddly or imprudently. What a terrible idea for the President to charge the Supreme...
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The Picture of Health
From the facts, we know that Americans enjoy outstanding access and quality in their health care system. The only real “crisis” in America’s health care today is the unsustainable, increasing burden of...
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More on the budgetary effect of health care reform
Today Avik Roy of Forbes kindly provided me with a forum for responding to some of the questions that have arisen about my study showing that the 2010 health care reform law will add substantially to...
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Derailing the Medicaid Expansion: Chief Justice Roberts Gets This One Right
Unlike his unhappy performance with the individual mandate, the Chief Justice wrote a far more compelling decision when he struck down key portions of the Medicaid mandate. This provision has been...
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The Forum: The Supreme Court’s health care ruling
Over the next week, Advancing a Free Society will publish a series of pieces related to the Supreme Court’s decision in National Federation of Independent Businesses v. Sebelius. The Forum will cover...
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The future of American health care
Americans must realize that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was justified by a truly cynical mischaracterization of America’s medical system, obfuscating its renowned excellence despite...
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Michael McConnell on SCOTUS ACA ruling
Read his column at Reuters: “These are significant rulings in support of federalism and the ideal of limited government. They will reverberate in litigation for years to come.” And a post over on the...
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