News
National Journal | Supreme Court Says It Will Let Appellate Courts Rule on Health Law
The justices denied Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s motion to hear the case before appellate courts rule on the challenge. U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson in Virginia ruled the law’s requirement that individuals purchase health insurance was unconstitutional in December.
Blogs
Café Hayek | But Not Sufficiently Sacred for Physicians to Work for Free
Admittedly, the politically engineered wedge separating the receipt of health-care services from the responsibility for paying for these services creates problems.
WSJ: Real Time Economics | Health Insurance Demand and the Uninsured
A common thread on how to bring down the nation’s heath tab is that the bigger stake we have in medical care costs – the more we have to pay for premiums and copays – the less likely we are to undergo expensive and unnecessary treatments.
Econlog | Where is My Free Lunch?
In other words, let's find the free lunch first, before we have to pay for lunch. Here are my remarks:
Reports
Cato Institute | The Case Against President Obama's Health Care Reform: A Primer for Non Lawyers
Multiple challenges to President Obama's health care reform are percolating through the federal courts. Soon the Supreme Court will be asked to weigh in on perhaps the most important question of the post–New Deal era: Are there any remaining limits on the breadth and scope of federal power?
