Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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This is a topic, with start date July 15, 2009 and end date March 30, 2010.
Its theme(s) are United States domestic politics.
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- Act is unconstitutional (35 items)
- Act should be passed (375 items)
- Act should not have been passed (363 items)
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Act is unconstitutional
For
Just reading Obamacare cruel and unusual punishment by Mark Steyn (The Orange County Register, 30 March 2012) (view)
The ObamaCare Reckoning by The Wall Street Journal editorial board (The Wall Street Journal, 28 March 2012) (view)
Obscure Court Decision Gives Government Sweeping Power by Thomas Sowell (Investor's Business Daily, 26 March 2012) (view)
The Constitution vs. Obamacare by National Review editorial board (National Review, 26 March 2012) (view)
Liberty and ObamaCare by The Wall Street Journal editorial board (The Wall Street Journal, 22 March 2012) (view)
Against
Five Supreme Court Justices Put Our Health Care On The Line by Paul Begala (The Daily Beast, 2 April 2012) (view)
Broccoli Mandates and the Commerce Clause by James B. Stewart (The New York Times, 30 March 2012) (view)
One Simple Argument Could Have Saved Obamacare. Too Bad Verrilli Didn’t Make It. by Jeffrey Rosen (The New Republic, 30 March 2012) (view)
Why the individual mandate holds the key to health-care reform by The Washington Post editorial board (The Washington Post, 26 March 2012) (view)
Uphold affordable health care by Detroit Free Press editorial board (Detroit Free Press, 25 March 2012) (view)
Is Health Care Reform Unconstitutional? by David Cole (New York Review of Books, 29 January 2011) (view)
Act should be passed
For
Health stakes never higher by The Tennessean editorial board (The Tennessean, 21 March 2010) (view)
Laying the foundation by Los Angeles Times editorial board (Los Angeles Times, 21 March 2010) (view)
Health reform is a risk worth taking by The Washington Post editorial board (The Washington Post, 19 March 2010) (view)
On the Verge of Reform by The New York Times editorial board (The New York Times, 18 March 2010) (view)
Money talks by The Philadelphia Inquirer editorial board (The Philadelphia Inquirer, 14 March 2010) (view)
Why Republicans should support health care reform by Ray LaHood (Chicago Tribune, 14 March 2010) (view)
Cost control's the key by Los Angeles Times editorial board (Los Angeles Times, 12 March 2010) (view)
Health reform that won't break the bank by Peter Orszag, Nancy-Ann DeParle (The Washington Post, 5 March 2010) (view)
Don’t Give Up Now by The New York Times editorial board (The New York Times, 25 January 2010) (view)
The moment Ted Kennedy would not want to lose by Victoria Reggie Kennedy (The Washington Post, 20 December 2009) (view)
Why the Senate Should Vote Yes on Health Care by Joe Biden (The New York Times, 19 December 2009) (view)
Why cost shouldn't stop health-care reform by Kirsten Powers (New York Post, 14 December 2009) (view)
As Rumors Fly, a Call for a United Front on Healthcare in the House by Raul Grijalva (The Nation, 23 October 2009) (view)
Medicare Scare-Mongering by The New York Times editorial board (The New York Times, 26 September 2009) (view)
The Senate Is Ready to Act on Health Care by Max Baucus (The Wall Street Journal, 16 September 2009) (view)
No Government Health Care! (Except for Mine.) by Ezra Klein (The Washington Post, 30 August 2009) (view)
Fixing Health Care Is Good for Business by Gary Locke (The Wall Street Journal, 28 August 2009) (view)
Fight for the 'public option' by The Philadelphia Inquirer editorial board (The Philadelphia Inquirer, 24 August 2009) (view)
Public option is critical to reform by The Denver Post editorial board (The Denver Post, 23 August 2009) (view)
'Un-American' attacks can't derail health care debate by Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer (USA Today, 10 August 2009) (view)
Will Obamacare Make the U.S. More Like Europe? by Dean Baker (The Huffington Post, 4 August 2009) (view)
What's so great about private health insurance? by Michael Hiltzik (Los Angeles Times, 3 August 2009) (view)
Health Care Reform and You by The New York Times editorial board (The New York Times, 25 July 2009) (view)
On Reforming Health Care by San Francisco Chronicle editorial board (San Francisco Chronicle, 23 July 2009) (view)
Health Reform Mustn't Hinge On Deadlines by Marie Cocco (Investor's Business Daily, 22 July 2009) (view)
How health reform helps Americans by John Dingell, Sander Levin (The Detroit News, 22 July 2009) (view)
No Excuses -- Health Care Really Can't Wait by Richard Kirsch (The Huffington Post, 21 July 2009) (view)
A Strong Health Reform Bill by The New York Times editorial board (The New York Times, 15 July 2009) (view)
Against
Health care designed in a rug bazaar by Patrick McIlheran (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 March 2010) (view)
For bankruptcy and socialism by Las Vegas Review-Journal editorial board (Las Vegas Review-Journal, 20 March 2010) (view)
Health Overhaul's Assault On Business by Investor's Business Daily editorial board (Investor's Business Daily, 20 March 2010) (view)
The ObamaCare Crossroads by The Wall Street Journal editorial board (The Wall Street Journal, 20 March 2010) (view)
The Real Arithmetic of Health Care Reform by Douglas Holtz-Eakin (The New York Times, 20 March 2010) (view)
Corrupt politics as usual enough to make you sick by Charles Hurt (New York Post, 19 March 2010) (view)
Democrats risk undermining process with health care bill by The Detroit News editorial board (The Detroit News, 19 March 2010) (view)
Hiding the true cost of Obamacare by The Washington Times editorial board (The Washington Times, 19 March 2010) (view)
March Madness by The Wall Street Journal editorial board (The Wall Street Journal, 19 March 2010) (view)
Health Care Fraud by Investor's Business Daily editorial board (Investor's Business Daily, 18 March 2010) (view)
Edwards, Pelosi reveal Dems' two paths on health care by The Dallas Morning News editorial board (The Dallas Morning News, 17 March 2010) (view)
Obama's illusions of cost-control by Robert J. Samuelson (The Washington Post, 15 March 2010) (view)
Questions for Davis, Filner: Will health care overhaul live up to Obama’s two key promises? by The San Diego Union-Tribune editorial board (The San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 March 2010) (view)
Rep. Paul Ryan on what real health reform should look like by Paul Ryan (The Washington Post, 15 March 2010) (view)
The U.S. House should reject the health care bill and start over by The Seattle Times editorial board (The Seattle Times, 15 March 2010) (view)
Pull the plug, Barack by New York Daily News editorial board (New York Daily News, 14 March 2010) (view)
The Cost-Control Illusion by The Wall Street Journal editorial board (The Wall Street Journal, 13 March 2010) (view)
Obamacare worth the price to Democrats by Mark Steyn (The Orange County Register, 5 March 2010) (view)
Dispatch health care reform bill by The Denver Post editorial board (The Denver Post, 16 January 2010) (view)
Labor's $60 Billion Payoff by The Wall Street Journal editorial board (The Wall Street Journal, 16 January 2010) (view)
Change Nobody Believes In by The Wall Street Journal editorial board (The Wall Street Journal, 21 December 2009) (view)
President Obama, Congress should set health-care reform aside by The Seattle Times editorial board (The Seattle Times, 18 December 2009) (view)
Worse Than the Public Option by The Wall Street Journal editorial board (The Wall Street Journal, 11 December 2009) (view)
Medicare cuts and other D.C. fairy tales by David Gratzer (New York Daily News, 3 December 2009) (view)
ObamaCare at Any Cost by The Wall Street Journal editorial board (The Wall Street Journal, 2 December 2009) (view)
The $1.9 Trillion Gimmick by The Wall Street Journal editorial board (The Wall Street Journal, 18 November 2009) (view)
Health 'Reform' Gets a Failing Grade by Jeffrey Flier (The Wall Street Journal, 17 November 2009) (view)
Fear of health ‘reform’ is warranted by The San Diego Union-Tribune editorial board (The San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 November 2009) (view)
The Worst Bill Ever by The Wall Street Journal editorial board (The Wall Street Journal, 1 November 2009) (view)
Why Government Health Care Keeps Falling in the Polls by Arthur C. Brooks (The Wall Street Journal, 25 October 2009) (view)
Obama Hasn't Closed the Health-Care Sale by Karl Rove (The Wall Street Journal, 14 October 2009) (view)
Mandatory Insurance Is Unconstitutional by David B. Rivkin Jr., Lee Casey (The Wall Street Journal, 18 September 2009) (view)
Government Medicine vs. the Elderly by Rupert Darwall (The Wall Street Journal, 15 September 2009) (view)
Obama and the Bureaucratization of Health Care by Sarah Palin (The Wall Street Journal, 8 September 2009) (view)
ObamaCare's Crippling Deficits by Martin Feldstein (The Wall Street Journal, 7 September 2009) (view)
10 Things I Hate About Health-Care Reform by Arthur Feldman (The Washington Post, 6 September 2009) (view)
How to Insure Every American by John Shadegg, Pete Hoekstra (The Wall Street Journal, 4 September 2009) (view)
Like your health plan? Read this by Michael Tanner (The Orange County Register, 26 August 2009) (view)
ObamaCare Is All About Rationing by Martin Feldstein (The Wall Street Journal, 18 August 2009) (view)
The Truth About Health Insurance by The Wall Street Journal editorial board (The Wall Street Journal, 12 August 2009) (view)
The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare by John Mackey (The Wall Street Journal, 12 August 2009) (view)
Health Care Reform: A Better Plan by Charles Krauthammer (The Washington Post, 7 August 2009) (view)
Reforming health care the responsible way by Judd Gregg (New Hampshire Union Leader, 2 August 2009) (view)
The second myth by The San Diego Union-Tribune editorial board (The San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 July 2009) (view)
Obamacare: It's Even Worse Than You Think by James Capretta, Yuval Levin (The Weekly Standard, 27 July 2009) (view)
No profit motive by The Washington Times editorial board (The Washington Times, 26 July 2009) (view)
Obama playing defense by The Orange County Register editorial board (The Orange County Register, 24 July 2009) (view)
Still Not An Option by Investor's Business Daily editorial board (Investor's Business Daily, 21 July 2009) (view)
Destroying private health insurance by The Washington Times editorial board (The Washington Times, 20 July 2009) (view)
Healthcare 'fix' hurts small business by The Miami Herald editorial board (The Miami Herald, 19 July 2009) (view)
A Reckless Congress by The Wall Street Journal editorial board (The Wall Street Journal, 17 July 2009) (view)
Reformers' Claims Just Don't Add Up by Investor's Business Daily editorial board (Investor's Business Daily, 17 July 2009) (view)
Runaway Train To Less Freedom, Higher Taxes And Rationed Care by Michael Leavitt (Investor's Business Daily, 17 July 2009) (view)
It's Not An Option by Investor's Business Daily editorial board (Investor's Business Daily, 15 July 2009) (view)
The Deep-Pockets Mirage by The Washington Post editorial board (The Washington Post, 15 July 2009) (view)
The Small Business Surtax by The Wall Street Journal editorial board (The Wall Street Journal, 15 July 2009) (view)
Universal Health Care Isn't Worth Our Freedom by Thomas Szasz (The Wall Street Journal, 15 July 2009) (view)
Mixed
Five ways to improve the health care hybrid by USA Today editorial board (USA Today, 16 March 2010) (view)
Real debate might fix what ails health care by Chicago Sun-Times editorial board (Chicago Sun-Times, 12 August 2009) (view)
Don't rush health-care reform by Orlando Sentinel editorial board (Orlando Sentinel, 30 July 2009) (view)
The Health-Care Sacrifice by The Washington Post editorial board (The Washington Post, 26 July 2009) (view)
The cost of good intentions by New York Daily News editorial board (New York Daily News, 24 July 2009) (view)
Opening bids on health care contain good ideas, big costs by USA Today editorial board (USA Today, 16 July 2009) (view)
Act should not have been passed
For
Undoing Obamacare by Jeffrey Anderson (The Weekly Standard, 2 April 2012) (view)
Just reading Obamacare cruel and unusual punishment by Mark Steyn (The Orange County Register, 30 March 2012) (view)
Obamacare case goes beyond health care by The Detroit News editorial board (The Detroit News, 16 November 2011) (view)
ObamaCare Goes to Court by The Wall Street Journal editorial board (The Wall Street Journal, 15 November 2011) (view)
ObamaCare and the Limits of Government by David B. Rivkin Jr., Lee Casey (The Wall Street Journal, 15 November 2011) (view)
ObamaCare's Growing List Of Broken Promises by John Merline (Investor's Business Daily, 5 October 2011) (view)
Bending Obamacare’s honesty curve downward by Milton Wolf (The Washington Times, 30 September 2011) (view)
Health care taxing America's workers by Debra Saunders (San Francisco Chronicle, 29 September 2011) (view)
ObamaCare Faces Death Panel Of Its Own by Investor's Business Daily editorial board (Investor's Business Daily, 12 August 2011) (view)
Massachusetts Mess by Investor's Business Daily editorial board (Investor's Business Daily, 18 July 2011) (view)
Coming soon: A bigger, costlier Obamacare by Ron Johnson, Douglas Holtz-Eakin (The Washington Post, 16 June 2011) (view)
No, You Can't Keep Your Health Insurance by Grace-Marie Turner (The Wall Street Journal, 8 June 2011) (view)
ObamaCare's Next Constitutional Challenge by Richard Epstein, Mario Loyola (The Wall Street Journal, 7 June 2011) (view)
Obamacare’s unlimited power by The Washington Times editorial board (The Washington Times, 2 June 2011) (view)
ObamaCare's 1-year toll by Pittsburgh Tribune-Review editorial board (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 27 March 2011) (view)
One year later, ObamaCare still in ICU by Las Vegas Review-Journal editorial board (Las Vegas Review-Journal, 23 March 2011) (view)
Obama's health care reform is unhealthy for hospitals by John D. Hartigan (The Baltimore Sun, 19 March 2011) (view)
The Supreme Court and the health-care mandate muddle by George F. Will (The Washington Post, 13 March 2011) (view)
ObamaCare Is Already Damaging Health Care by Lloyd Krieger (The Wall Street Journal, 23 February 2011) (view)
An ObamaCare Appeal From the States by Mitch Daniels (The Wall Street Journal, 7 February 2011) (view)
Obamacare unconstitutional by The Orange County Register editorial board (The Orange County Register, 31 January 2011) (view)
ObamaCare Rewards Friends, Punishes Enemies by Karl Rove (The Wall Street Journal, 6 January 2011) (view)
Death panels, maybe. Rationing, probably by The Orange County Register editorial board (The Orange County Register, 28 December 2010) (view)
If health care is a 'right,' then government has no limits by Thomas McClanahan (Star Tribune, 23 December 2010) (view)
Time for the Supreme Court to weigh in on the health-care law by Ken Cuccinelli (The Washington Post, 16 December 2010) (view)
ObamaCare Loses in Court by The Wall Street Journal editorial board (The Wall Street Journal, 14 December 2010) (view)
Health Care: Socialism by Richmond Times-Dispatch editorial board (Richmond Times-Dispatch, 2 December 2010) (view)
What Republicans can — and can’t — do about ObamaCare by Michael Tanner (New York Post, 7 November 2010) (view)
Obamacare R.I.P. by The Washington Times editorial board (The Washington Times, 30 October 2010) (view)
50 Laboratories For Health Reform by Investor's Business Daily editorial board (Investor's Business Daily, 28 October 2010) (view)
Legal threats to Obamacare advance by The Orange County Register editorial board (The Orange County Register, 22 October 2010) (view)
ObamaCare's Incentive to Drop Insurance by Philip Bredesen (The Wall Street Journal, 21 October 2010) (view)
ObamaCare, for Some by The Wall Street Journal editorial board (The Wall Street Journal, 21 October 2010) (view)
Democrats and the Health-Reform Albatross by Karl Rove (The Wall Street Journal, 30 September 2010) (view)
Health Care: 'You Dummies' by Richmond Times-Dispatch editorial board (Richmond Times-Dispatch, 27 September 2010) (view)
The continuing health care nightmare by J. C. Watts (Las Vegas Review-Journal, 22 August 2010) (view)
Show Me ObamaCare by The Wall Street Journal editorial board (The Wall Street Journal, 5 August 2010) (view)
Health care reform, after Obamacare by The Orange County Register editorial board (The Orange County Register, 27 July 2010) (view)
Health care lies by Las Vegas Review-Journal editorial board (Las Vegas Review-Journal, 23 July 2010) (view)
Mandate mendacity: The Obamacare tax by New Hampshire Union Leader editorial board (New Hampshire Union Leader, 21 July 2010) (view)
The Massachusetts Health-Care 'Train Wreck' by Joseph Rago (The Wall Street Journal, 7 July 2010) (view)
...True to forms by Pittsburgh Tribune-Review editorial board (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 19 June 2010) (view)
ObamaCare: The ruse exposed... by Pittsburgh Tribune-Review editorial board (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 19 June 2010) (view)
The Bad News About ObamaCare Keeps Piling Up by Karl Rove (The Wall Street Journal, 17 June 2010) (view)
ObamaCare Mulligan by The Wall Street Journal editorial board (The Wall Street Journal, 26 April 2010) (view)
Oops, we did that? More health care surprises by New Hampshire Union Leader editorial board (New Hampshire Union Leader, 14 April 2010) (view)
Tax shock is just start for Obamacare by Patrick McIlheran (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 April 2010) (view)
Costs? What costs? by Las Vegas Review-Journal editorial board (Las Vegas Review-Journal, 4 April 2010) (view)
The ObamaCare Writedowns by The Wall Street Journal editorial board (The Wall Street Journal, 27 March 2010) (view)
ObamaCare Day One by The Wall Street Journal editorial board (The Wall Street Journal, 25 March 2010) (view)
Obamacare: The time for selling has just begun by Patrick McIlheran (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 March 2010) (view)
No Obamacare for Obama by The Washington Times editorial board (The Washington Times, 23 March 2010) (view)
Obamacare: Another Washington scam by New Hampshire Union Leader editorial board (New Hampshire Union Leader, 23 March 2010) (view)
Obamacare Isn’t Inevitable by National Review editorial board (National Review, 22 March 2010) (view)
Inside the Pelosi Sausage Factory by Kimberley Strassel (The Wall Street Journal, 21 March 2010) (view)
Against
New health care law should be preserved by Sander Levin (The Detroit News, 30 March 2012) (view)
Affordable Care Act for a healthier America by Nancy Pelosi (San Francisco Chronicle, 23 March 2012) (view)
Healthcare Is Better and More Affordable Because of Health Reform by John Kerry (The Huffington Post, 23 March 2012) (view)
As health law turns 2, the demonization continues by USA Today editorial board (USA Today, 22 March 2012) (view)
In defense of health care law's 'essentials' by Kathleen Sebelius (USA Today, 3 January 2012) (view)
Healthcare at the high court by Los Angeles Times editorial board (Los Angeles Times, 16 November 2011) (view)
Health Reform and the Supreme Court by The New York Times editorial board (The New York Times, 14 November 2011) (view)
Don't give up on long-term coverage by The St. Petersburg Times editorial board (The St. Petersburg Times, 19 October 2011) (view)
Healthcare reform law: What's the big deal? by William Leach (Los Angeles Times, 7 October 2011) (view)
A health-care law for rural America by Kathleen Sebelius, Tom Vilsack (The Denver Post, 24 March 2011) (view)
New health care law helping middle-class families by Donna Shalala (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 March 2011) (view)
How the Affordable Care Act empowers states by Kathleen Sebelius (The Washington Post, 10 February 2011) (view)
GOP vote to repeal health reform an empty gesture by San Francisco Chronicle editorial board (San Francisco Chronicle, 21 January 2011) (view)
The GOP's rude awakening on health-care repeal by Eugene Robinson (The Washington Post, 21 January 2011) (view)
The Truth and Consequences of Repeal by The New York Times editorial board (The New York Times, 15 January 2011) (view)
Health law has life by The Philadelphia Inquirer editorial board (The Philadelphia Inquirer, 19 December 2010) (view)
Obamacare: Helpful law already paying big dividends by Susan Davis (The San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 December 2010) (view)
If new health care reforms die, America loses by Froma Harrop (The Dallas Morning News, 16 December 2010) (view)
The individual mandate: It's constitutional by Los Angeles Times editorial board (Los Angeles Times, 15 December 2010) (view)
Unchecked power: The courts and Obamacare by New Hampshire Union Leader editorial board (New Hampshire Union Leader, 15 December 2010) (view)
A repeal that’ll be dangerous to our health by Derrick Jackson (The Boston Globe, 14 December 2010) (view)
Health reform will survive its legal fight by Eric Holder, Kathleen Sebelius (The Washington Post, 14 December 2010) (view)
Judge Hudson's flawed but restrained ruling on the health law by The Washington Post editorial board (The Washington Post, 13 December 2010) (view)
GOP can streamline health law, improve malpractice system by The Boston Globe editorial board (The Boston Globe, 7 November 2010) (view)
To Save Money, Save the Health Care Act by Peter Orszag (The New York Times, 3 November 2010) (view)
Health Care and the Campaign by The New York Times editorial board (The New York Times, 23 October 2010) (view)
Health insurance: Spread the risks by Los Angeles Times editorial board (Los Angeles Times, 18 October 2010) (view)
Health Insurers Finally Get Some Oversight by Kathleen Sebelius (The Wall Street Journal, 28 September 2010) (view)
Health-care reform is making a difference by Michael R. McGarvey (The Philadelphia Inquirer, 23 September 2010) (view)
We Call That Double-Dipping by The New York Times editorial board (The New York Times, 5 April 2010) (view)
The Legal Assault on Health Reforms by The New York Times editorial board (The New York Times, 28 March 2010) (view)
Let go of the status quo by Los Angeles Times editorial board (Los Angeles Times, 25 March 2010) (view)
Health care is now an American right by Chicago Sun-Times editorial board (Chicago Sun-Times, 23 March 2010) (view)
The health-care vote: One more step on a long, slow journey by Richard Cohen (The Washington Post, 23 March 2010) (view)
An American cure for an ailing system by Star Tribune editorial board (Star Tribune, 22 March 2010) (view)
Landmark change of health reform will be a defining moment by Mike Littwin (The Denver Post, 22 March 2010) (view)
Health Care Reform, at Last by The New York Times editorial board (The New York Times, 21 March 2010) (view)
Mixed
Is mandate constitutional? by Jonathan Turley (USA Today, 31 March 2010) (view)
AG Rob McKenna has a case to challenge the health-care law's individual mandate by The Seattle Times editorial board (The Seattle Times, 26 March 2010) (view)
Landmark health vote aids millions, leaves tough choices by USA Today editorial board (USA Today, 22 March 2010) (view)
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