Obamacare: An Unconstitutional Misadventure

The Constitution/Civil Liberties

Obamacare: An Unconstitutional Misadventure

by Richard A. Epstein

Hoover Institution

March 26, 2012

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is subject to the law of unintended consequences. The law may proclaim that it protects patients when it in fact it restricts the health-care options of those it’s intended to protect. The Affordable Care Act says that it will increase access to affordable care when in fact its endless mandates will drive up the cost of care. The false advertising of the Affordable Care Act’s title conceals a wealth of difficulties with its internal design, which make its scheme unsustainable in the long run.

URL: www.hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/article/112101