On Health Care, Justice Will Prevail

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Author(s) Laurence Tribe
Source The New York Times
Date February 8, 2011
URL http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/opinion/08tribe.html
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Quotes-start.png Since the New Deal, the court has consistently held that Congress has broad constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce. This includes authority over not just goods moving across state lines, but also the economic choices of individuals within states that have significant effects on interstate markets. By that standard, this law’s constitutionality is open and shut. Does anyone doubt that the multitrillion-dollar health insurance industry is an interstate market that Congress has the power to regulate? Quotes-end.png


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This item argues against the position Act should not have been passed on the topic Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.