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• Is a Federal Mandate Constitutional?

  
  Donklephant — Authority: 534
  Journalist Ezra Klein has come out in favor of the proposition that a federal health insurance mandate is constitutional, but the question remains a thorny legal problem. If a reform bill is passed with an individual mandate, will it pass constitutional muster? The answer isn’t quite as clear as Klein would have ...
  1 week ago

• Grassley Flips on Health Insurance Mandate

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 743
  Here’s Sen. Charles Grasssley (R-Iowa) in June, telling Fox News that requiring people to buy health insurance is a good idea, analogous to states requiring drivers to purchase car insurance: There isn’t anything wrong with it, except some people look at it as an infringement upon individual freedom. But when ...
  2 weeks ago

• Grassley questions whether insurance mandate violates 10th Amendment

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 619
  Even if Democrats manage to pass health reform legislation, if it contains an individual mandate it could prove unconstitutional, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said Thursday. During an interview with KAYL radio in Storm Lake and the Marshalltown Times Republican, Grassley said that even though he’s never studied law ...
  2 weeks ago

• Obama supports fines, brushes concerns over jail time for lack of health insurance

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 551
  During a recent interview with ABC News, President Barack Obama said that he believed individuals that didn’t buy health insurance should face some form of monetary penalty , comparing it to state requirements for car insurance (these types of mandates don’t guarantee coverage ), and brushed aside talk of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Health Care: Not Close to Over

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 733
  The fat lady hasn’t even started to warm up yet. The narrow 220-215 victory in the House on Saturday night was a step forward on the road to a government takeover of the health care system.  But as close and dramatic as that vote was, that was the easy part.  The Senate must still pass its version of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Don’t Have Insurance ? PelosiCare Has A $ 15,000 Fine For That

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 551
  Yet more lovely details from the House health care bill: Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Does White House Care If ObamaCare Is Constitutional?

  
  Freedom's Wings — Authority: 127
  Today, a reporter asked the White House Spokesmoron Robert Gibbs whether White House lawyers had reviewed the individual mandate that is present in both the Senate and House’s healthcare bills. Gibbs responds to the question was, “Not that I know of. I don’t think it has gotten to the point where anybody ...
  4 weeks ago

• Interview With Tim Geithner, Poster Boy For An Administration That Has No Clue

  
  Start Thinking Right — Authority: 475
  From NBC’s “Meet the Press,” with David Gregory interviewing Treasury Secretary ‘Turbo Tax’ Timothy Geithner. SEC’Y GEITHNER:  You know, what the government did was to step in and make sure we’re providing the tax cuts and investments necessary to arrest the crisis, get credit markets starting to ...
  4 weeks ago

• A Summary of the Government Takeover of Health Care

  
  Start Thinking Right — Authority: 475
  This is a prepared House Republican document which you can view as a PDF file here . House Democrat Health “Reform” Legislation: Short Summary of the Government Takeover of Health Care October 29, 2009 BACKGROUND AND EXECUTIVE SUMMARY On October 29, 2009, Speaker Pelosi and the House Democrat leadership ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Pelosi Bill: Cost, Mandates and Taxes

  
  RedState — Authority: 809
  MEMORANDUM EXCLUSIVE FOR REDSTATERS FROM: Michael Hammond RE: The Pelosi Bill -The real cost of the bill is at least $1.3 trillion (the CBO score, plus the “doc fix”) –- and probably much, much more. -The absolute minimum increase in the deficit would be $150 billion. You can probably ...
  4 weeks ago

• Are Savvier Democrats Playing Rope-a-Dope?

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 733
  Let’s simplify things and say there are essentially two parts to the health care bills moving through Congress: an individual mandate that would effectively nationalize health care, and a government-run program that would explicitly nationalize it slowly, over time . One explanation for Majority Leader Harry ...
  4 weeks ago

• How the Media Has Failed America on Healthcare Reform–Part I

  
  Big Government — Authority: 818
  Most casual followers of politics did not pick up on the debate over healthcare reform until some time this past summer. They mostly ignored the umpteen news conferences held by the President since the spring, but they couldn’t miss the broader media coverage of town hall outrage. But for a small number of media ...
  4 weeks ago

• Pollsters: Public Support for ObamaCare Collapses under the Facts

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 759
  When it comes to ObamaCare, poll after poll shows the public can be fairly supportive—until they realize how much they stand to personally lose. Americans have told pollsters for months about fears that their health coverage will disappear . They’re also reporting unprecedented concern that health reform ...
  4 weeks ago

• Harry Reid’s Gambit: Is Opting Out a Gimmick?

  
  The New Ledger Features — Authority: 592
  Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed Francis Cianfrocca joins Ben Domenech for the Tuesday, October 27th edition of Coffee & Markets , a series of brief morning podcasts on politics and the marketplace, now appearing as well on WashingtonTimes.com . Today’s podcast focuses on Senate Majority Leader ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Education of Congressman Hoyer

  
  Big Government — Authority: 818
  Congress is moving closer to enacting a law requiring all Americans to purchase health insurance. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says that this is “like paying taxes.” He’s right about that. But Hoyer made this statement as part of an effort to justify the health-care mandate on constitutional grounds. ...
  5 weeks ago

• Taking A Crack At Constitutional Law

  
  Joust The Facts — Authority: 129
  No, Im not a lawyer, but I do play one on my blog. A reporter for CNS News asked a startled House Speaker Nancy Pelosi today ... well, Ill let them tell you. The exchange with Speaker Pelosi on Thursday occurred as follows: CNSNews.com: “Madam Speaker, where specifically does the...
  5 weeks ago

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