Is not limited to the unconstitutionality of the mandate to purchase federally-approved insurance, but goes much deeper. So argues Mona Charen in this column today. Especially dangerous (and unconstitutional as well) is the Independent Payment Advisory Board, which will have wide and uncontrolled power over as much of the medical market as it wants.
Remember — despite the 2000 plus pages of the statute, much more of what the feds will do will be written into regulations and there is no telling just how invasive and authoritarian those regs will be. A safe assumption is that government power will continue to grow like kudzu in mid-summer. What is left of private decision-making by doctors and patients will be whittled steadily away.
There are a lot of foolish people who think they favor Obamacare, owing to a childish trust in the benevolence of government. For all but a few who will be able to escape the net of federalized medical care, Americans will be made much worse off because Obama and his fellow authoritarians succeeded in yoking the nation to government-provided system.
