News
CNN: Money | National electronic health records network gets closer
The ambitious goal of setting up a nationwide, interconnected, private and secure electronic health records system isn't yet a reality -- but we're getting closer.
National Journal | Census Report: '90 Is the New 85'
By 2050, the United States is likely to have 9 million people 90 and older, the report projected. In 1980, only 720,000 Americans were around who had lived past their 90th birthdays. That number grew to 1.9 million last year.
Politico | Romney's real health reform goals differed
Mitt Romney has spent a lot of time defending himself over the Massachusetts health care law. But there's another way to judge his health care record: Look at what he wanted to do.
Blogs
Volokh Conspiracy | Will the Necessary & Proper clause save Obamacare? Not if the Court follows McCulloch v. Maryland
In short, the Necessary and Proper Clause expressed the well-known agency law doctrine of principals and incidents. That is, the grant of power to an agent (and the federal government was an agent of the people, to exercise certain delegated powers) was considered to include incidental powers.
Heritage Foundation | Obamacare Threatens Life and Liberty
The Supreme Court’s announcement on Monday that it will consider the constitutionality of some of Obamacare’s provisions, including the individual mandate, has reignited discussion of the health care law’s many problematic provisions.
ThinkMarkets | Sliding Toward the Individual Health Insurance Mandate: An Absurdist Analysis
So building upon a very bad decision Wickard v. Filburn, the logic of this constitutional reasoning leads to the Bedlam that it all just a matter of how a law requiring the purchase of health insurance is phrased, and whether you have EVER OR AT ANY TIME engaged in ANY COMMERCE (since everything is interstate!).
