Individual mandate

• WASHINGTON — The individual insurance requirement that the Supreme Court is reviewing isnt the first federal mandate involving health care.
(Huffington Post)
• The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments this week over key aspects of President Obamas health care law, including the expansion of Medicaid and whether the court even had the right to hear the case.
(NPR News)
• Despite their current opposition, the individual mandate originated with Republicans. Weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz talks to former Sen. Bob Bennett about the Republicans support of the idea.
(NPR News)
• As I have noted in my several write-ups of this past week's oral argument at the Supreme Court, there is a reasonable chance that the Court will vote to strike down Obamacare in its entirety.
(Forbes)
• The Heritage Foundations constitutional law expert, Todd Gaziano, fired back last week at people who have said the group came up with the idea of a law that requires everyone to buy health insurance also known as the individual mandate.
(NewsMax.com)
• U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar is like many Senate Republicans who have spent a few decades in Washington - he was for the individual health care mandate before he was against it.
(msnbc.com)
• As the Cato Institute's Michael Cannon has noted, during the Clinton era the Congressional Budget Office scored an individual mandate as a form of government spending, which pushed the official cost of the Clinton bill into the trillions.
(New York Times)
• Of all the arguments being waged over the Affordable Care Act — or, as the Obama campaign now likes to refer to it, "Obamacare" — the one dominating the Supreme Court this week is perhaps the most conceptually trivial.
(Washington Post)
• Ezra Klein is a columnist and blogger at The Washington Post and a policy analyst for MSNBC. His work focuses on domestic and economic policy-making, as well as the political system thats constantly screwing it up.
(Bloomberg)