Sunday, May 6, 2012

Health care mandate

  • As they await the Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act, legal critics of the law say their case is about liberty.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Next month, the Supreme Court will deliver its judgment on the constitutionality of the Affordable Health Care Act. The key issue is the "individual mandate" which requires people to buy insurance.
  • (LJWORLD)
  • Throughout the constitutional debate over the Affordable Care Act, most observers have assumed that the key question would be whether the individual mandate is a proper exercise of Congresss powers to regulate interstate commerce.
  • (Atlantic Online)
  • "The Constitution is not for Democrats or Republicans or Independents. It is for all of us, and a great nonpartisan effort should be led by our elected representatives to ensure that it remains so.
  • (Washington Times)
  • In January, the oldest Baby Boomers turned 66, representing the first wave of 78 million prospective health care consumers.
  • (nola.com)
  • When the Obama administrations health care financing plan was signed into law, President Obama and Congress promised that funds under the new law would not cover abortions. This has now been proven to be empty rhetoric.
  • (Warren Tribune Chronicle)
  • The letter from Don Smith (April 8) is yet another attack on hapless Tribune contributor Jon Beydler, who could do no better than pose a lame analogy comparing auto insurance to a mandate for health insurance.
  • (East Valley Tribune)
  • So, one thing has continually troubled me throughout the health care debate, and this is the consistent polling showing opposition to the individual mandate. Its taken me a while, but I think that I have finally figured this out.
  • (The Business Insider)
  • April 19--The intense debate over whether the U.S.
  • (Insurance News Net)

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