Wednesday, December 18, 2013

The Case That Could Topple Obamacare

Pema Levy
Newsweek
December 18, 2013



Obama is enforcing the complete opposite of what his health care law says! Credit: MDGovpics via Flickr
Obama is enforcing the complete opposite of what his health care law says! Credit: MDGovpics via Flickr

Obamacare may have its problems, including more bugs than you can find in the cornfields of Nebraska, but its legal worries were meant to end after the Supreme Court upheld the individual mandate, the heart of the Affordable Care Act.


Now, as the technologists charged with making healthcare.gov work report progress, lawyers are re-entering the fray. A little-heard of challenge currently making its way through the court system may represent opponents’ last best hope of, as they are fond of saying, driving a stake through the heart of the law.

It all started in 2011, when Jonathan H. Adler, a conservative law professor at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, shot an email to his friend Michael Cannon, a health policy expert at the libertarian Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. Adler thought he had spotted an error in Obamacare that could unravel a significant portion of the law.

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