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Reason-Rupe Poll: Americans Don't Think Health Care or Broccoli Mandates Are Constitutional
March 26, 2012, 9:01am
Amicus Brief Filed With Supreme Court: Department of Health and Human Services, et al., v. Florida, et al.
Reason Foundation joins brief challenging the health care mandate
February 16, 2012
Liberal Programs Deserve Blame for Income Inequality
The Congressional Budget Office documents income gains for everyone, not just the wealthy.
Shikha Dalmia
November 8, 2011
Soak the Rich or Soak the Super Rich?
Harry Reid's "millionaire' surcharge" is a new move in the old Democratic game of class warfare.
Shikha Dalmia
October 18, 2011
Strict Scrutiny
ObamaCare and the long slow death of conservative judicial restraint
Damon W. Root
August 18, 2011
Looking for Limits
The power to mandate health insurance is the power to mandate almost anything.
Jacob Sullum
August 17, 2011
We're from the Government and We're Here to Help
The government created our current health care mess. So why do progressives want to give the state more control?
A. Barton Hinkle
August 2, 2011
No Healthy Deals
Why are Washington’s debt dealmakers ignoring fundamental entitlement reform?
Peter Suderman
July 22, 2011
IPAB: “The Roach After the Nuclear Blast.”
ObamaCare’s Medicare cost-control panel may be unworkable, unconstitutional, and a barrier to real reform. It’s also very difficult to repeal.
Peter Suderman
July 13, 2011
Smoked Out
Arizona’s unfortunate reliance on tobacco industry revenues to fund health insurance.
Peter Suderman
July 6, 2011
The Week of Lying Dangerously
Obama displays a Clintonian desire to have things both ways.
Jacob Sullum
July 6, 2011
Spend More, Save More
Can Medicare save money by giving patients cash?
Peter Suderman
June 16, 2011
Medicare's Least Bad Fix
Why RyanCare beats ObamaCare in a knockout
Shikha Dalmia
June 14, 2011
The Trouble with ObamaCare
Counting the problems with the president's health care plan
David Harsanyi
June 8, 2011
More Central Planning: The Failed Panacea for Health Care Reform
A rebuttal to The New Republic's latest prescription for health care reform
Ronald Bailey
June 8, 2011
The Facts about the Government’s Medicare Cost Projections
Separating economic myths from economic truths
Veronique de Rugy
June 3, 2011
ObamaCare’s Disastrous New Long-Term Care Entitlement
The Obama administration makes a CLASS of itself.
Peter Suderman
May 27, 2011
Will Comparative Effectiveness Research Kill More People Than It Helps?
Consumers, not bureaucrats, should make healthcare decisions.
Ronald Bailey
May 24, 2011
Wither Medicare?
Newt Gingrich jeopardizes reform by exaggerating small differences.
Jacob Sullum
May 18, 2011
Eat Your Veggies
Why the broccoli argument might backfire in the ObamaCare case
A. Barton Hinkle
May 6, 2011
Why RyanCare Will Fail
Paul Ryan's budget embraces a fatal premise of the Nanny State
Shikha Dalmia
April 19, 2011
A Conservative Defense of ObamaCare
Reagan's former solicitor general says the individual mandate passes constitutional muster
Steve Chapman
April 18, 2011
The Truth About Health Care Reform and the Economy
Separating economic fact from economic myth
Veronique de Rugy
April 15, 2011
Welcome Budget Talk
What Paul Ryan's plan gets right—and wrong
John Stossel
April 14, 2011
Debt Wrong
Obama bets that the government can save itself.
Peter Suderman
April 14, 2011
Reforming Medicare for the Real World
The status quo cannot last.
Steve Chapman
April 7, 2011
Whose Body Is It?
Abortion-rights advocates favor a highly selective form of self-ownership.
A. Barton Hinkle
April 1, 2011
The Rosy Scenario System
Optimism won't fix America's fiscal problems.
Peter Suderman
March 23, 2011
ObamaCare’s Unreasonable Insurance Regulations
The health insurance rate review puzzle
Peter Suderman
March 3, 2011
Mitch Daniels vs. ObamaCare
Indiana's governor on what's wrong with last year's health care overhaul—and what must be done to fix it.
Peter Suderman
February 16, 2011
Are We All Originalists Now?
The debate over ObamaCare highlights a growing division on the legal left
Damon W. Root
February 11, 2011
Passive Resistance
Excluding inactivity from the Commerce Clause still leaves Congress with far too much power.
Jacob Sullum
February 9, 2011
A Mandate Too Far
Why ObamaCare deserves to fall
Steve Chapman
February 3, 2011
He Loves the Mandate, He Loves It Not.
The Obama administration’s individual mandate flip-flops.
Peter Suderman
February 2, 2011
The Right Kind of Activism
Does the federal court system exist to rubber stamp legislation?
David Harsanyi
February 2, 2011
Grading Barack Obama
Libertarian legal scholar Richard Epstein on his former University of Chicago colleague
Nick Gillespie
January 24, 2011
Inoculating Against True Health Care Reform
We can’t all live at the expense of everyone else.
Steve Chapman
January 20, 2011
Obama Isn't Fooling Anyone
The president is no deregulator
David Harsanyi
January 19, 2011
A Physician's Take on the "Death Panel" Revelation
The truth about end-of-life counseling
Jeffrey A. Singer
January 5, 2011
The ObamaCare Fraud
The law will penalize doctors to pay patients and penalize patients to pay doctors.
Shikha Dalmia
December 31, 2010
Follow the Bouncing Buck
The year's highlights in blame shifting
Jacob Sullum
December 29, 2010
The Never-Ending "Business of Centralization"
What’s wrong with placing a few limits on federal power?
Damon W. Root
December 22, 2010
An Unhealthy Mandate
Does ObamaCare violate the Constitution?
Steve Chapman
December 16, 2010
Clause Escape
Are you committing interstate commerce by doing nothing?
Jacob Sullum
December 15, 2010
And This Is the Thanks Obama Gets?
Progressives abandon the president
David Harsanyi
December 8, 2010
A Simple Way to Improve Medicare
End the "doc fix" and allow balance-billing
Jeffrey A. Singer
November 25, 2010
The Case Against Motorcycle Helmet Laws
This is not a public health issue.
Steve Chapman
November 25, 2010
Doctors’ Orders
The government’s war on medical “price fixing” squelches speech without helping consumers.
S.M. Oliva
November 22, 2010
No, It's Not a Messaging Problem
The real trouble with ObamaCare
David Harsanyi
November 17, 2010
Stop Smearing Federalism
From consumer advocacy to gay marriage, liberals routinely embrace federalism. So why do they keep comparing it to slavery?
Damon W. Root
November 10, 2010