Here is a quick pop quiz. Which presented more harm to human life and
personal freedom: the 16-day partial shutdown of the federal government
last month or the rollout of Obamacare this month?
Obamacare is
the greatest single expansion of federal regulatory authority in
American history. In one stroke, it puts 16 percent of American economic
activity — virtually all of health care and health insurance — under
the thumb of federal bureaucrats. It dictates the minimum insurance
coverage that everyone in the United States must have.
It punishes
severely, without a hearing, anyone who deviates below the prescribed
minimum. It forces nearly all Americans to acquire coverage in a
one-size-fits-all policy, including coverage for events that cannot
occur.
Obamacare was passed by both houses of Congress with
support from Democrats only, using parliamentary tricks, rather than
straight up-or-down votes. All the Democrats voted for it after
President Obama promised them and the American people ad nauseam that if
they like their current doctor and if they like their current health
insurance, they would be able to keep them under Obamacare.
The
law was found constitutional by the Supreme Court only after the chief
justice — who acknowledged in his opinion in the case that Congress
lacks the authority to compel people to engage in interstate commerce by
forcing them to purchase a good they don't want — changed his mind on
the ultimate outcome of the challenge. In order to save the law from
imminent constitutional extinction, he created a novel legal theory, and
he persuaded the four progressives on the court to join him.
They
ruled that the punishment for the failure to obtain the level of health
care coverage that the law requires is actually a tax. Then the court
ruled that because Congress can constitutionally tax any event, it can
tax nonevents (like the failure to purchase health insurance), and so
the entire scheme is constitutional because it is really just a tax law.
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Thursday, November 21, 2013
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