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Heritage Foundation | Side Effects: Obama Administration Admits You Can’t Keep Your Health Plan
On several occasions during the health care reform debate, President Obama promised the American people, “If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.”
The Volokh Conspiracy | Court Did Not Authorize Economic Mandates Under the Tax Power
Throughout the Obamacare litigation, I freely conceded that Congress could use its tax powers to create incentives to buy health insurance, and even enact a “single payer” Medicare for everyone scheme. But I never accepted the claim made by Obamacare proponents that all Congress needed to do was call the mandate a “tax” (from which they then claimed that it was just a matter of labels).
