Trump’s “New and Improved” Obamacare
At an appearance in Charlotte, North Carolina, last month, President Trump unveiled his replacement for Obamacare that “puts patients first, families first, and — perhaps most importantly for all of us — America first.” The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,...
Can the Government Force Us to Eat Broccoli?
With President Donald Trump’s nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, the Affordable Care Act — Obamacare — is back in the news. Barrett expressed constitutional misgivings about Obamacare 10 years ago when she was a professor at Notre Dame...
More evidence that the Obamacare insurance mandate was unconstitutional
When Congress passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), the law featured a mandate that individuals buy health insurance. People who did not comply would be fined. Obamacare advocates defended the constitutionality of this mandate by arguing...