Obamacare and the Assault on Individual Liberty
By Peter Berkowitz
- January 11, 2014
From the beginning, opponents of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act argued that its arrogation of responsibility to the federal government for administering health insurance, and consequently overseeing one-sixth of the nation’s economy, damaged the public interest and contravened sound principles of American constitutional government. The new law, these critics contended, diminished individual liberty by authorizing government to assume vast responsibilities for which it was poorly suited and which exceeded its constitutionally delegated powers.
Obamacare proponents found these criticisms, associated with the Tea Party movement but by no means exclusively advanced by those affiliated with it, risible and dismissed them out of hand. Proponents typically accused critics of ignorance, dishonesty, and selfishness. Liberal elites often accused Obamacare opponents of racism.
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