See the following posts at StateHouseCall.org: Health Care Freedom in Virginia by James Lansberry and Freedom of Health Care Act Advances in Tennessee by John LaPlante. In Virginia both the House and Senate have passed ...
Originally published in the Aurora Daily Sentinel, January 29th, 2010. This version has links to references.
Why we're "crazy" about health care choice
By Brian T. Schwartz and Linda Gorman
Sentinel Editor Dave Perry dismisses the Colorado Right to Health Care Choice Initiative as "crazy" and says its supporters "clearly have lost" their ...
From the AP:
Opponents of the health care reform bill are not giving up the fight, and some think their last, best hope to halt the legislation lies not in the Capitol but in the court across the street.
A small but vocal contingent of legal scholars and many Republican lawmakers argues ...
Excerpts from a new article (its summary) co-authored by Randy E. Barnett, Professor of Legal Theory at Georgetown U.:
An individual mandate to enter into a contract with or buy a particular product from a private party is literally unprecedented, not just in scope but in kind, and unconstitutional either ...
Dr. Paul Hsieh has a great article in the Washington Examiner about HR 3962 and mandatory health insurance. It begins:
Suppose the mafia came to your town and forced everyone to purchase all their meals at mob-approved restaurants. The mafia would also select the menu items.
If you liked broccoli but their ...
So explains Paul Hsieh MD in "ObamaCare: A National Version of RomneyCare"
Massachusetts’ system of mandatory insurance drives up costs and violate individual rights
“Coverage” is not the same as actual medical care
The Massachusetts plan will end in rationing.
Here is yet another example of how mandatory insurance can make your insurance policy illegal. Writes Wendy Williams in the Wall Street Journal:
...Massachusetts requires every resident to have health insurance, and this year, without informing us directly, the state had changed the rules in a way that made our bare-bones ...
The Swiss health care system [gated, but with abstract] has attracted interest from many conservatives because insurance there is mainly private, long-term, and personal and portable. By some estimates it also is the most egalitarian health system in the world. What is less well understood is that when the Swiss ...
"The percentage of primary care practices closed to new patients is the highest it’s ever been as recorded by the Medical Society." -- Massachusetts Medical Society
Is this what we should expect if insurance is mandatory across the United States? More from study linked above:
Primary Care: Long waits, ...
Paul Hsieh, M.D. has an excellent op-ed in the Christian Science Monitor about the harms of mandatory insurance. It begins:
In his recent speech to Congress, President Obama could have promoted healthcare reforms that tapped the power of a truly free market to lower costs and improve access. Instead, he chose ...
