Sally Pipes argues:
With each passing week, it looks more and more like Republicans will retake control of Congress this fall. The latest Gallup poll gives the GOP a six-point edge. Rasmussen puts the Republican lead at seven points.
Even if Republicans take back Congress, they won’t be ...
Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Ken Buck has said that ObamaCare (HR 3590) is wrong. In Human Events, Sally Pipes of the Pacific Research Institute makes the case that "lawmakers need to scrap the measure in its entirety" and that "incremental revisions just won’t do." Some excerpts:
Incremental revisions just ...
Amendment 63 : health care choice not a "PR stunt"
Is the Colorado Right to Health Care Choice Initiative a "public relations stunt," as a political science professor says? No, it's not. Should a lawsuit against the mandatory insurance provision of HR 3590 succeed, the Feds will pressure states into enforcing ...
The St. Louis Business Journal reports:
Voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition C at Tuesday's election, but it will likely be overturned in court, law and health-care experts say.
Proposition C creates a law banning the government from forcing Missourians to buy health insurance under the federal health-care overhaul [HR 3590] starting ...
From Jon Caldara:
As I hope you know, we have been working to bring to this Fall’s Colorado ballot a citizens’ amendment, the Right to Health Care Choice. Well, we just cleared a massive hurdle. A federal court judge has placed an emergency injunction on a new ...
Merrill Matthews of the Council for Affordable Health Insurance suggests ways of curbing the harmful effects of the health control legislation, HR 3590, if repealing it is not an option:
Republicans have kicked off their ObamaCare “repeal and replace” campaign, but there will likely be neither repeal nor replace unless ...
From Dave Kopel:
Let’s begin by getting rid of the red herring that questioning the constitutionality of Obamacare requires denying the constitutionality of the New Deal and the Great Society. Orin asks:
In your view, which of the following federal programs or agencies are constitutional?
(a) Social Security
(b) The Federal Trade ...
A couple of updates on the legal challenged to ObamaCare health control legislation (HR 3590):
The first is by Ilya Shapiro at Cato:Update on the Legal Challenges to Obamacare. A particularly notable section:
At least one enterprising analyst [Greg Scandlen] has determined that the 2,400-page bill lacks a severability clause. ...
In December I blogged about law professor Randy Barnett's article published by the Heritage Foundation on why mandatory insurance is unconstitutional. Earlier this week The Wall Street Journal published Barnett's article on how supporters of the new health control legislation are changing tactics:
First Congress said it was a regulation of ...
From the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Inc:
On March 26th, 2010 AAPS filed suit to invalidate the new massive health care bill, which passed the House by only 4 votes on a party-line vote (with 34 Democrats voting against it). Forcing patients to buy insurance that ...
