“Unexpected” cost overruns are nothing new for government programs. When Medicare was passed in 1965, it was predicted the program would "only" cost $12 billion by 1990 (it actually cost a whopping $110 billion per year by 1990, nearly 10 times more than predicted).
The rapidly rising costs of ObamaCare will likely far outpace the amount by which Medicare exceeded its original cost estimates. But the soaring economic costs of ObamaCare will pale in comparison to the escalating losses of freedom.
The infringement of personal freedom receiving the most attention lately has been the “individual mandate” which requires Americans to purchase health insurance. This issue is at the heart of the current legal challenge before the U.S. Supreme Court. Lost in the debate, however, is the fact that ObamaCare also poses numerous other mandates, controls and burdens on patients, their doctors and employers. Read more about these burdens in an article from D4PC's Dr. Paul Hsieh, here.
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It's Not Just The Mandates: Obamacare's Other Infringements, PJ Media
Friday, March 30, 2012
Obama Shifts Healthcare Debate, The Hill
Sunday, March 18, 2012
The Obama administration has shifted its legal arguments as it prepares to defend the president’s healthcare law before the Supreme Court. Some legal experts say the shift could steer the case in a direction that would make Justice Antonin Scalia more likely to uphold the healthcare law’s mandate requiring individuals to purchase health insurance.
Oral arguments are set to begin March 26, and the justices are expected to give a ruling in June, just months before the presidential election.
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D4PC "Morning Rounds" Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Welcome to D4PC "Morning Rounds", your daily review of healthcare news and information from Washington, DC and around the nation. These briefings will keep you up to date on recent developments and our effort to replace the PPACA with patient-centered reforms that protect the doctor-patient relationship and preserve individual freedom of choice.
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Recent Developments in Health Care Litigation
Thursday, February 23, 2012
There have been two noteworthy developments related to healthcare litigation over the past few days.
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D4PC "Morning Rounds" Tuesday November 8, 2011
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Welcome to D4PC "Morning Rounds", your daily review of healthcare news and information from Washington, DC and around the nation. These briefings will keep you up to date on recent developments and our effort to replace the PPACA with patient-centered reforms that protect the doctor-patient relationship and preserve individual freedom of choice.
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DOJ Gambles in the Courts About Constitutionality of the Individual Mandate
Thursday, October 27, 2011
In a frantic rush to ram the President's healthcare takeover into law, Obama administration officials omitted a "severability" clause into the legislative language which means if the Supreme Court finds the individual mandate unconstitutional, then legally, the entire law should collapse since congress can't remove the unconstitutional segment and still uphold the law.
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D4PC "Morning Rounds" Monday August 15, 2011
Monday, August 15, 2011
Welcome to D4PC "Morning Rounds", your daily review of healthcare news and information from Washington, DC and around the nation. These briefings will keep you up to date on recent developments and our effort to replace the PPACA with patient-centered reforms that protect the doctor-patient relationship and preserve individual freedom of choice.
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Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Individual Mandate
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Docs4PatientCare's president, Dr. Hal Scherz, issued the following statement in response to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals decision on Friday that found that the individual mandate contained in ObamaCare unconstitutional:
"The decision Friday from the 11th Circuit court in Atlanta fell short of our hope that the mandate would be found unconstitutional AND that the entire healthcare law would need to be repealed because it could not stand without the mandate.
Practically speaking, the healthcare law will fail on its own merits without the unconstitutional mandate keeping it afloat. It will be up to the Supreme Court now to drive a stake through the heart of this monstrous law, and hopefully soon enough to prevent further damage caused already by it."
The full decision of the court can be found here.
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PPACA Mandate: Not Commerce, Not Interstate, Not Necessary, Not Proper
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Robert A. Levy, the Chairman of the Cato Institute has a new posting on SCOTUS blog (a blog about the cases and happenings at the Supreme Court of the United States) that pulls apart the "individual mandate" as not having any relation to "interstate commerce" and which fails to meet the Constitution's "necessary and proper" clause.
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- D4PC "Morning Rounds", Monday, May 21, 2012
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