From the Archives: On The Constitutionality of Obamacare

From the Daily Record (Rochester) June 8, 2011

Below is a reprint from an article I published in the NY Daily Record June 8, 2011, the same day I participated in a public debate on the Constitutionality of Obamacare.

I think it is still relevant because the House Republicans have now voted 40 times to repeal it on the grounds that it is a dramatic governmental overreach and its key provision, the "individual mandate," socialism.

In fact the "individual mandate" was a policy initiative which came from the conservative Heritage Foundation in 1989 and was a part of a bill sponsored by Republican Senators Orrin Hatch and Kit Bond. It was only after Obama embraced it that they decided it was evil incarnate.

IS THE PPAC AN ABANDONMENT OF FEDERALISM?

reprinted from the June 8, 2011 DAILY RECORD

When the 111th Congress began crafting what came to be the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) it attempted to resolve one of the most inscrutable problems facing all health care regimes, i.e., everyone consumes health care but not ever…