Stuart Varney talks to Grace-Marie Turner about the legal challenges facing ObamaCare. … [Read more...] about FOX Business: Health Insurance Companies vs. Obama
Liberty’s Landmark Week
The Supreme Court will hear six hours of arguments over three days about four questions involving the 26-state challenge to Obamacare. Here is a quick guide to what you need to know to follow the case, which former attorney general Ed Meese has called “the most important case to come before the court in 100 years.” 10 a.m. Monday: 90 minutes on whether the fine associated with the individual … [Read more...] about Liberty’s Landmark Week
So what is a better plan if ObamaCare is declared unconstitutional or repealed?
Help states set up functional pools so people with pre-existing conditions are protected Provide new subsidies for the uninsured to purchase the coverage of their choice Encourage the states to set up marketplaces for people to buy insurance and allow policies to be purchased across state lines Boost insurance rules to guarantee that if people have coverage, they can keep it and their premiums … [Read more...] about So what is a better plan if ObamaCare is declared unconstitutional or repealed?
Tom Miller: Can ObamaCare Be Undone?
Repealing Obamacare is necessary to preserve individual liberty, maintain limited government, improve health care, and restore economic growth. Prospects for doing so hinge on a half-dozen key battle fronts, and success thereafter hinges on several, if not all, of them. Legal: The Supreme Court could overturn the entire Affordable Care Act later this year as unconstitutional. That’s possible, … [Read more...] about Tom Miller: Can ObamaCare Be Undone?
Tom Miller: Obamacare in Court: What’s Really Being Decided
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
Tom Miller: The individual mandate: ineffective, overreaching, unsustainable, unconstitutional and unnecessary
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
George Will: Obamacare’s contract problem
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
NCR: At Scores of Rallies, Thousands Hear Calls to Restore Constitutional Right to Religious Liberty
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