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Last week, The Wall Street Journal, outlined several of the fiscal challenges facing Medicare and how past efforts at curbing costs (i.e., price controls and arbitrary cuts to physician reimbursements) have failed to restrain the growth of the program, failed to restrain budget deficits, distorted the health care marketplace and led to negative consequences for patients. 

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Double Deference and the House GOP’s Fair-weather Federalism

The Republican call for national tort reform, although commendible, is somewhat of a concern. If the Federal goverment can regulate malpractice, why can't it mandate ways to cover healthcare costs, like it is doing under the new healthcare law via the individual mandate? The Commerce Clause is a sword that carves out more control for the federal government and is a dangerous weapon to wield.

Constitutional scholar Randy Barnett confirmed our fears in the two above pieces on this subject. 

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Grace-Marie Turner, president of the Galen Institute, wrote an editorial recently which appeared in Investor's Business Daily with her take on Mitt Romney's plan to sign an executive order effectively extending an Obamacare waiver to every state.

"Mitt Romney may have waived goodbye to the GOP nomination with his assertion that he could start unraveling ObamaCare by issuing an executive order as soon as he moved into the White House.

"Simply put, executive orders cannot contradict statutory law. Waivers are not a solution and might well detract from the ultimate goal of repealing ObamaCare and replacing it with a truly free market alternative that puts patients — not bureaucrats — in charge of their health care."

Read her full editorial here. 

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