Avik Roy, Forbes
Saturday brought us two lengthy articles, from the New York Times and Washington Post, about Obamacare’s individual mandate. Some liberal critics complain that the Obama administration didn’t heed their warnings about the mandate’s Constitutional weakness, while still others complain that the White House failed to heed their advice on how best to defend the mandate in court. You can detect a theme there. But neither accusation is true. Contemporaneous accounts tell us the real story of why President Obama decided to roll the mandate dice.
Saturday brought us two lengthy articles, from the New York Times and Washington Post, about Obamacare’s individual mandate. Some liberal critics complain that the Obama administration didn’t heed their warnings about the mandate’s Constitutional weakness, while still others complain that the White House failed to heed their advice on how best to defend the mandate in court. You can detect a theme there. But neither accusation is true. Contemporaneous accounts tell us the real story of why President Obama decided to roll the mandate dice.
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