Contraceptives Mandate Brings ObamaCare’s Coercive Power into Sharper Focus

By Michael F. Cannon

President Obama is catching some well-earned blowback for his decision to force religious institutions “to pay for health insurance that covers sterilization, contraceptives and abortifacients.” You see, ObamaCare penalizes individuals (employers) who don’t purchase (offer) a certain minimum package of health insurance coverage. The Obama administration is demanding that coverage must include the aforementioned reproductive care [...]

Contraceptives Mandate Brings ObamaCare’s Coercive Power into Sharper Focus is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog

‘They’d Rather Be Caught Sacrificing to Satan Than Voting for Obamacare’

By Michael F. Cannon

Michigan has become the latest to repudiate Obamacare: In an action with major implications for health reform in Michigan, the state House has voted to turn down—at least for now—nearly $10 million in federal funds to create a statewide health exchange by 2014 to sell more affordable, standardized health insurance to consumers and small businesses. The Michigan [...]

‘They’d Rather Be Caught Sacrificing to Satan Than Voting for Obamacare’ is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog

Va. Gov. McDonnell (Sort of) Takes My Advice, Defers Creating ObamaCare Exchange

By Michael F. Cannon

In June, I testified in Richmond before Virginia’s Joint Commission on Health Care that Virginia should refuse to create one of ObamaCare‘s health insurance “exchanges”: [ObamaCare's] health insurance “Exchanges” are scheduled to become operational in 2014.  These new government bureaucracies would enforce the law’s regulations that will drive up health insurance premiums, and would distribute hundreds [...]

Va. Gov. McDonnell (Sort of) Takes My Advice, Defers Creating ObamaCare Exchange is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog

No Wonder Romney Didn’t Mind Forcing People to Purchase Health Insurance

By Michael F. Cannon

To Mitt Romney, $10,000 is no big deal. No Wonder Romney Didn’t Mind Forcing People to Purchase Health Insurance is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog

No Wonder Romney Didn’t Mind Forcing People to Purchase Health Insurance is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog