Health Care Mandate

Supreme Court Health Care Ruling Could Mean Life Or Death For Some

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 05.18.2012

WASHINGTON — Cancer patient Kathy Watson voted Republican in 2008 and believes the government has no right telling Americans to get health insur...

Yes, The Health-Care Mandate Is About Liberty

Posted 05.06.2012

Bloomberg View: As they await the Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act, legal critics of the law say their case is about liberty. If the...

The Long Game for Health Reform

Harvard Kennedy School Democrats | Posted 04.23.2012

Harvard Kennedy School Democrats

Even if the Affordable Care Act falls in whole or in part, it will have still been a success for three key reasons.

Is the Healthcare Mandate a Tax?

Jonathan Kolstad | Posted 04.13.2012

Jonathan Kolstad

The Supreme Court's task is to rule based on the legal questions at hand, but we think the economic ones are also important, given the Massachusetts experience.

Broccoli Is a Choice, Health Insurance Is Not

John Conway | Posted 04.06.2012

John Conway

With this system, healthcare remains in private hands, people would retain some choice in their coverage whether it is potato chips or broccoli. Everybody eats and the check is split much more fairly.

The Government Made Me Buy a Catalytic Converter and Pay the Wages of Food Inspectors!

Mike Lawson | Posted 04.03.2012

Mike Lawson

The federal government forces me to spend money in order to use a product/service to redress a market imperfection. As the result of these mandates, I get safer food, a cleaner environment, and more affordable healthcare.

Mandate Wrinkle Catches Justices' Attention

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 04.02.2012

WASHINGTON — The individual insurance requirement that the Supreme Court is reviewing isn't the first federal mandate involving health care. Th...

6 Potential Outcomes For Health Care Case

AP | MARK SHERMAN and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 03.29.2012

WASHINGTON — The arguments are done and the case has been submitted, as Chief Justice John Roberts says at the end of every Supreme Court argume...

Janell Ross

She Voluntarily Gave Up Health Insurance

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 03.28.2012

In 2009 Dorothy Bunce had health insurance. She also had all kinds of health problems: Bunce weighed just under 300 pounds, and her high blood pressur...

Tea Party Senator's Advice To Women Who Can't Afford Birth Control

The Huffington Post | Leigh Owens | Posted 03.27.2012

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) weighed into the controversy surrounding President Barack Obama's birth control mandate this weekend, dismissing the concern...

The Mandate and Its Enemies

Abdulrahman El-Sayed | Posted 03.27.2012

Abdulrahman El-Sayed

The health insurance mandate was a compromise that effectively guaranteed the health insurance market in America for years to come by making that market more efficient and guaranteeing it paying customers into the future. Why, then, is the right attacking it?

Ryan Grim

Health Care Mandate Will Affect Surprisingly Few People

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 03.27.2012

WASHINGTON -- Just 2 percent of the U.S. population would be subject to the aspect of health care reform at the center of a constitutional challenge b...

Sam Stein

Supreme Court Clerks Predict Health Care Reform Will Be Upheld

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.27.2012

WASHINGTON -- The lawyers who know the Supreme Court justices best seem largely certain that they'll uphold the president's health care law following ...

Americans "Win" if the Health Care Mandate Is Tossed Out

Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 10.14.2011

Miles J. Zaremski

It has been headline news that the 11th Circuit federal appeals court in Atlanta ruled that the mandate in Obama's Affordable Care Act ("ACA") ...

Judge Tosses Latest Obama Health Care Suit

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Tuesday threw out a lawsuit claiming that President Barack Obama's requirement that all Americans have health in...

Reagan Solicitor General: 'I Am Quite Sure That The Health Care Mandate Is Constitutional' (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

Former Reagan Solicitor General Charles Fried delivered testimony during a Senate hearing on the "The Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act," e...

Health Care Ruling Does Not Create Uncertainty, Says White House

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — The White House says it disagrees with a Virginia judge's ruling declaring a key provision of President Barack Obama's health care ...