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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452818003321

Autore

Koppelman Andrew

Titolo

The tough luck constitution and the assault on health care reform / / Andrew Koppelman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

0-19-026018-1

1-299-45679-0

0-19-997003-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (195 p.)

Disciplina

344.73022

Soggetti

National health insurance - Law and legislation - United States

Health insurance - Law and legislation - United States

Constitutional law - United States

Health care reform - United States

Medical care - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Road to the Mandate; Origins of Health Insurance; After Medicare and Medicaid; Obama; 2 Appropriate Constitutional Limits; The Enumerated Powers; Necessary and Proper; The Unhappy Story of Judicially Crafted Limits; A Constitution of Subsidiarity; Why the Mandate Is Constitutional; 3 Bad News for Mail Robbers; The Invention of the Constitutional Objection; Barnett's Libertarianism; The Path to the Supreme Court; The Broccoli Horrible; From Court to Court; 4 What the Court Did; The Mandate; Medicaid; Severability; Explaining John Roberts

5 Where It HurtsSo What Happens to the Medicaid Expansion?; Your Tough Luck; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

Chief Justice John Roberts stunned the nation by upholding the Affordable Care Act--more commonly known as Obamacare. But legal



experts observed that the decision might prove a strategic defeat for progressives. Roberts grounded his decision on Congress's power to tax. He dismissed the claim that it is allowed under the Constitution's commerce clause, which has been the basis of virtually all federal regulation--now thrown in doubt. In The Tough Luck Constitution and the Assault on Health Care Reform, Andrew Koppelman explains how the Court's conservatives embraced the arguments of a fringe li