The American Spectator

home
ADVERTISEMENT
Print Email
Text Size

The Spectacle Blog

The Senate Judiciary Committee just concluded its hearing on the constitutionality of the national health care law. There were many illuminating points made in the roughly two and a half hour hearing, but there was one in particular that I want to highlight.

Michael Carvin, a lawyer at Jones Day, made the point that there’s a key distinction between the mandate and  Congressional efforts to regulate commerce. It’s one thing for the government to impose regulations on insurers, such as the requirement that they cover those with pre-existing conditions, but doing so causes a distortion in commerce. And the mandate is an effort to “ameliorate” the distortion to the market caused by Congress.

View all comments (1) |

lol wut?| 2.2.11 @ 1:07PM

"And the mandate is an effort to "ameliorate" the distortion to the market caused by Congress."

lol wut?

More Blog Posts by Philip Klein

http://spectator.org/blog/2011/02/02/regulating-commerce-under-obam

ADVERTISEMENT

SPONSORED LINKS

FLASHBACK TO: 1995

Clip of the Day

Most Popular Articles

The Liberal Union Behind the IRS

Jeffrey Lord | 5.16.13

My Generation’s Disease

Benjamin Brophy | 5.17.13

Not Ready for Primetime Players

Daniel J. Flynn | 5.17.13

Pick Obama's Brain

Paul Kengor | 5.16.13

Assessing a Week of Scandal

Matt Purple | 5.17.13

Pray and Grow Rich

Christopher Orlet | 5.16.13

Oops, Maybe Government is Tyrannical

Marta H. Mossburg | 5.17.13

From Bimbos to Benghazi

Jeffrey Lord | 5.9.13

ADVERTISEMENT