Thursday, March 11th, 2010

As this suit enters its third year, we are still at a loss to understand why HHS continues to oppose being able to unconditionally remove oneself from Part A coverage.

Read the government’s response by accessing the calendar and scroll down to 1/22/2010.  There are four documents.

The truth is that Obamacare is a care rationing, proxy death-paneling, taxpayer-abortion-funding, unconstitutionally individual-mandating, vast-bureaucracy creating, incredibly high taxing, free enterprise hobbling, doctor-patient-relationship interfering, medical-device denying, flexible savings-account destroying, trial-lawyer gift-wrapping, union-boss mollycoddling, medical price-increasing, job-killing, sinister power-grabbing, American republic-undermining mound of legislative plutonium.

Impermissible Ratemaking in Health-Insurance Reform:
Why the Reid Bill is Unconstitutional
By Richard A. Epstein

 
This piece by Richard Epstein methodically, and carefully details the unconstitutional nature of the bill. 
Epstein’s PDF: http://www.medicalprogresstoday.com/pdfs/MI_Health_Care_act.pdf
Richard A. Epstein is the James Parker hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, the Peter and Kirstin Bedford Senior Fellow at the [...]

The Fund for Personal Liberty, a civil advocacy non-profit organization, is mentioned on FoxNews.com in advance of the senate vote for the Health Care Reform Bill.
“I personally do not believe the Congress has the authority to enact an individual mandate requiring a person to purchase a product from a private seller,” said Kent Masterson Brown, lead [...]

Thank you, everyone, for your support of Hall v. Sebelius, the Medicare Lawsuit.
Wishing everyone a safe and healthy holiday season.
~ Brian Hall

November 5, 2009
Dear Donors and Subscribers,
Brian Hall, the lead plaintiff in the Medicare Lawsuit, is on his way to regaining his freedom to contract for health insurance.  Mr. Hall’s health freedom was taken by government workers who wrote procedures for administering Social Security and Medicare that prevent him from opting out of Medicare unless he [...]

Representative Sam Johnson (R-TX) has introduced legislation to do what the Medicare Lawsuit is working to accomplish. He mentions the lawsuit in his op-ed published in the Washington Times.

Hill Briefing in Washington, DC on October 13, 2009
Lead Attorney Kent Masterson Brown and CATO policy analyst Michael Cannon discuss the Medicare Lawsuit, Hall v. Sebelius.

The Medicare Lawsuit is mentioned in the Christian Science Monitor, October 13, 2009:
Senate Finance Committee bill’s soft spot: health care insurance mandate- Americans must be aware of how mandates might impinge on their choices – and how vulnerable Obama’s plan might be to court challenge.
One example of government becoming more coercive in health matters is [...]