by Jane Richey | May 3, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
A Department of Health and Human Services-designed presentation on ObamaCare makes no mention of some of the law’s most controversial elements, including the individual mandate, tax penalties, and cuts to Medicare. Published Wednesday on the website BuzzFeed, the...
by Jane Richey | Apr 9, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The Obama administration is quietly diverting roughly $500 million to the IRS to help implement the president’s healthcare law. The money is only part of the IRS’s total implementation spending, and it is being provided outside the normal appropriations process. The...
by Jane Richey | Apr 1, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
On the first day of arguments the Court wrestled with the question of whether the health insurance premiums constituted a tax, but since the Obama Administration had twisted itself like a pretzel to claim it was not a tax, after once claiming it was a tax, that issue...
by Jane Richey | Mar 29, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
“There is an important connection — a profound connection” — between people who can’t afford health insurance and liberty, the Obama administration told the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday. But the attorney for the 26 states that are...
by Jane Richey | Mar 29, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
During oral arguments in the Supreme Court this week, Justice Stephen Breyer posed and answered the core question at issue in the controversy over the constitutionality of Obamacare’s mandate that individual Americans must buy government-approved health insurance...