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Monday, August 15, 2011

Health Care

Econ Comments                                                                                                             
AEI | Medicare End-of-Life Counseling: A Matter of Choice
Medicare spends a considerable amount of money on beneficiaries in their last year of life. This is often thought to be an issue of cost versus the intensity of care that end-of-life patients should receive.

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Cato @ Liberty | In Obamacare Case, Constitution Is Victor
By striking down the individual mandate, the Eleventh Circuit has reaffirmed that the Constitution places limits on the federal government’s power. Congress can do a great many things under modern constitutional jurisprudence, but, as the court concludes, “what Congress cannot do under the Commerce Clause is mandate that individuals enter into contracts with private insurance companies for the purchase of an expensive product from the time they are born until the time they die.”