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AEI's Michael Greve, Tom Miller, and Henry Olsen discuss this week's Supreme Court case: the individual mandate, severability, Medicaid, and the Anti-Injunction Act.   … [Read more...] about Tom Miller: Obamacare in Court: What’s Really Being Decided

Whether or not the individual mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) proves to be constitutionally valid, it is based on mistaken premises, faulty economic analysis, short-sighted politics, and seriously flawed health policy. The relationship between the mandate and the problems it purportedly could solve always has been tenuous and contradictory at best. Opponents find … [Read more...] about Tom Miller: The individual mandate: ineffective, overreaching, unsustainable, unconstitutional and unnecessary

On Monday the Supreme Court begins three days of oral arguments concerning possible — actually, probable and various — constitutional infirmities in Obamacare. The justices have received many amicus briefs, one of which merits special attention because of the elegant scholarship and logic with which it addresses an issue that has not been as central to the debate as it should be. Hitherto, most … [Read more...] about George Will: Obamacare’s contract problem

From the halls of government in the nation’s capital to the hills of San Francisco, thousands of Americans turned out today across the country to voice their opposition to what they perceive as serious encroachments on religious liberty. Sponsored by an organization called Stand Up for Religious Freedom, the rallies were held in 140 locations, including the Department of Health and Human … [Read more...] about NCR: At Scores of Rallies, Thousands Hear Calls to Restore Constitutional Right to Religious Liberty

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi told The Wall Street Journal last month that the "European social model has already gone." If his fellow Europeans have read Friedrich Hayek, they would also understand why. Friedrich August Hayek, who passed away 20 years ago this week, was one of the foremost social scientists of the last century. A Nobel laureate in economics, Hayek is often … [Read more...] about Alberto Mingardi: The European Union According to Hayek

Obamacare was enacted two years ago today. So far, its foremost achievement has been a Republican House of Representatives. But unless its next (and last) achievement is a Republican president and Senate willing to repeal the law, we are in for a world of trouble. To avoid that trouble and elect that new president and Senate, opponents of Obamacare have to keep the public focused on it, and keep … [Read more...] about Yuval Levin: Unhappy Birthday

Missing the mark: The president said that 129 million people were being denied health insurance because of pre-existing conditions. But only 48,879 people have signed up for ObamaCare’s expensive pre-existing condition insurance, costing taxpayers $5 billion. High cost: Costs per enrollee are estimated to average $28,994 in medical costs in 2012, according to the Obama administration, more than … [Read more...] about How ObamaCare Misses the Mark on Pre-Existing Conditions

In 2009, during the height of the debate over Obamacare, the law’s architect, MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, was all over the op-ed pages, talking about how the bill would reduce the cost of health insurance. “What we know for sure,” he told Ezra Klein, “is that [the bill] will lower the cost of buying non-group health insurance.” His words were trumpeted by the law’s advocates, and were critical … [Read more...] about Avik Roy: How Obamacare Dramatically Increases the Cost of Insurance for Young Workers