Post by midcan5 on Mar 8, 2011 5:57:09 GMT -5
by Pamela S. Karlan
"The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—which critics sometimes label Obamacare, as if the issue were the president, rather than providing adequate and affordable medical care—is under sharp legal attack, condemned as unconstitutional by conservative federal judges in Virginia and Florida.
Yet the grounds for the constitutional assault, ironically, stem from the Act’s conservatism, not its radicalism. If Congress had voted to provide every American with health care through a national health service, that new law would be safe from constitutional challenge. As would be laws that provide tax-supported health insurance to everyone by levying a special tax on businesses that provide no insurance to their workers, or even larding a special excise tax onto fattening foods."
www.bostonreview.net/BR36.2/pamela_s_karlan_obamacare.php
"Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy." Proverbs 31:8-9
"The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—which critics sometimes label Obamacare, as if the issue were the president, rather than providing adequate and affordable medical care—is under sharp legal attack, condemned as unconstitutional by conservative federal judges in Virginia and Florida.
Yet the grounds for the constitutional assault, ironically, stem from the Act’s conservatism, not its radicalism. If Congress had voted to provide every American with health care through a national health service, that new law would be safe from constitutional challenge. As would be laws that provide tax-supported health insurance to everyone by levying a special tax on businesses that provide no insurance to their workers, or even larding a special excise tax onto fattening foods."
www.bostonreview.net/BR36.2/pamela_s_karlan_obamacare.php
"Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy." Proverbs 31:8-9