Replace?
Put me down as an optimist, but I do not think the Supreme Court will invalidate the individual mandate and I will be so bold as to predict a 6-3 decision or better. Having…
A Different Kind of Mandate
About 3 weeks ago, by a margin of 2-1, the Eleventh Circuit Federal Court of Appeals in Atlanta struck down the constitutionality of a key provision of the Patient Protection and Aff…
A Further Comment on the Health Reform Lawsuits
In a previous posting the legally flawed and uninformed decision of Judge Roger Vinson was noted. Now Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has filed a brief asking the 4th Circui…
EMTALA mandates an individual mandate
A meme has been making its way through the Internet that an individual health care mandate has been in the congressional books since 1798. The argument goes that if John Adams and Th…
Suppositions on the Amendments
In my last post I wrote about some constitutional concerns and shall now address this issue further. Although the Bill of Rights contains no provision which prevents Congress f…
Repeal is Irresponsible
“The primary ethical issue of modern medicine and public health is the outcome gap,” write Paul Farmer and Nicole Gastineau Campos in an essay published in 2004. Entrench…
