Is Health Care Reform Unconstitutional?

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Author(s) David Cole
Source New York Review of Books
Date January 29, 2011
URL http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/feb/24/health-care-reform-unconstitutional/?pagination=false
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Quotes-start.png Congress plainly can tax for the purpose of providing health insurance. It does so already, through Medicare and Medicaid. Had it simply expanded these programs to provide universal care, there would be no question that its actions would be permissible under the taxing power. Similarly, it indisputably could have granted tax credits to those who purchase health care, and withheld them from those who do not. Imposing the tax directly on free riders is no less an exercise of the taxing power. Quotes-end.png


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This item argues against the position Act is unconstitutional on the topic Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.