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  • Health-Care Mandate's Proponents May Have a Hard Time
    by A. Barton Hinkle
    Richmond Times-Dispatch

  • It's Now Fact: The Public Hates Obamacare
    Editorial
    Washington Times

  • The Arizona Experiment
    by Eric Novack
    Washington Times

  • Virginia Wins a Round vs. Obamacare
    Editorial
    Washington Times

  • Keeping Kosher in America
    by Marcy Zwelling
    Campaign for Liberty

  • Your New Health Care System
    Austrian Economists Blog
  • Emergence of Unintended Consequences
    by James A. Bacon
    Washington Times

  • Health Insurance Mandate Meets Reality
    by Eric Novak
    Washington Times

  • Dangerous to Our Health
    by Jeff Jacoby
    Boston Globe

  • Authoritarianism Is Bad For Your Health
    by Ron Paul
    U.S. House of Representatives

  • Obamacare Breaks the Bank
    by Grace-Marie Turner
    Washington Times

  • Death Panels Were an Overblown Claim -- Until Now
    by Michael Tanner
    Cato Institute

  • Central Planning's Bad Medicine
    by David Gratzer
    Boston Herald

  • Health Care Entitlement Disease
    by Paul Dibble
    Washington Post

  • Working Class Are Under Attack from Health Paternalism
    by Patrick Basham and
    John Luik
    The Guardian

  • End the Mandate
    by Ron Paul
    U.S. House of Representatives

  • Mean Regs and Scam
    by Martin Bodek
    Washington Times

  • Obama's Doctorless World
    by Jason D. Fodeman
    Washington Times

  • Does the Bill Come With a Gift Receipt?
    by Robert Lovezzola
    Boston Globe

  • Virginia Rejects Federal Overreach of Obamacare
    by Kenneth T. Cuccinelli, II
    Washington Examiner

  • Healthcare Reform and Our Inconvenient Constitution
    by Mario Rizzo
    Christian Science Monitor

  • Q&A on Obamacare
    by Robert Higgs
    Independent Institute

  • ObamaCare and the Constitution
    Editorial
    Wall Street Journal

  • Is Mandate Constitutional?
    by Jonathan Turley
    USA Today

  • Barack Isn't My Daddy
    by Erik Telford
    Washington Times

  • Robbing Peter to Pay Paul's Health Care
    Editorial
    Washington Times

  • New Health Care Law Isn't What This Doctor Ordered
    by Marc Siegel
    USA Today

  • Healthcare and Economic Realities
    by Ron Paul
    U.S. House of Representatives

  • Judge Andrew Napolitano: Supreme Court to Strike Down Obamacare
    by David A. Patten
    Newsmax.com

  • Welcome to Europe
    by Pete du Pont
    Wall Street Journal

  • Mandatory Health Insurance Exceeds Powers Spelled Out in U.S. Constitution
    by Jonathan H. Adler
    Detroit Free Press

  • A Chance to Refine the Commerce Clause
    by Gary M. Galles
    Washington Times

  • With Health Bill, Obama Has Sown the Seeds of a Budget Crisis
    by Robert J. Samuelson
    Washington Post

  • Wishful Thinking on Health Care
    by Sheldon Richman
    Foundation for Economic Education

  • The Health-Care Reform Act: Que Paso?
    by Robert Higgs
    Independent Institute

  • The Health Plan's Devilish Principles
    by Murray N. Rothbard
    LewRockwell.com

  • Obama's Constitutional Malpractice
    Editorial
    Washington Times

  • The Death of Small Health and Dental Insurance Companies
    by Steven Horwitz
    PBS.org

  • Obamacare's Federal Police Force
    Editorial
    Washington Times

  • Ron Paul: National Bankruptcy Will Lead to Repeal of "Obamacare"
    by Andrew Moran
    Digital Journal

  • Healthcare Reform Passes
    by Ron Paul
    U.S. House of Representatives

  • The Reality of Obamacare
    by Jonah Goldberg
    Los Angeles Times

  • Sunday's Socialist Triumph
    by Tony Blankley
    Washington Times

  • Is Health-Care Reform Constitutional?
    by Randy E. Barnett
    Washington Post

  • Right-Wing Obamacare
    by Dan McCarthy
    American Conservative

  • The Real Health Care Debate: Who Decides?
    by Doug Bandow
    American Spectator

  • Americans Don't Want This Health Care Bill
    by Jim Vetter
    Washington Times

  • Questions for Your Representative
    by Milton R. Wolf
    Washington Times

  • Is Health Care a Right?
    by Walter E. Williams
    Washington Examiner

  • Canada's Warning Against Government Health Care
    Editorial
    Washington Times

  • End State Regulation of Health Care
    by Thomas Sowell
    Detroit News

  • Who Thinks Government Can Control Costs?
    by John Moore Amherst
    Boston Globe

  • It's Not about Health Care
    by Mark Steyn
    Washington Times

  • Good Reason to Fear Government's Influence
    by Richard Ralston
    Boston Globe

  • Countdown to Health Insurance Nationalization
    by Sheldon Richman
    Foundation for Economic Education

  • 4 Health Care Questions and Answers
    by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
    Fox News

  • Health Care Isn't Federal Government Business
    by Elizabeth Ward Nottrodt
    Washington Times

  • The Verizon Wireless Cure for Health Care Reform
    by Steven Horwitz
    Christian Science Monitor

  • Mayo Clinic Kicks Medicare to the Curb
    by Peter Weiss
    Washington Times

  • No Longer Land of the "Free"
    by Ed Fuelner
    Washington Times

  • The Snare of Incremental Health Care "Reform"
    by Sheldon Richman
    Foundation for Economic Education

  • Healthcare Legislation Is a Threat to Liberty
    by Orrin G. Hatch and
    Mark Shurtleff
    Los Angeles Times

  • Many Fear Government Involvement in Health Care
    by Barbara Hughes
    USA Today

  • That Rock in the Health-Care Road? It's Called the Constitution.
    by George F. Will
    Washington Post

  • "Uncle Sam Will See You Now"
    by Hal Scherz
    Washington Times

  • Why the Health-Care Bills Are Unconstitutional
    by Orrin G. Hatch, et al
    Wall Street Journal

  • Modern Day Lunacy
    by Walter E. Williams
    George Mason University

  • Healthcare Reform Is a Lump of Coal
    by Ron Paul
    U.S. House of Representatives

  • Obamacare's Dirty Deals
    Editorial
    Washington Times

  • Should We Entrust Our Health to Obamacare?
    by Nat Hentoff
    Cato Institute

  • Is Health Care Reform a Gift or Lump of Coal?
    by Frank Beckmann
    Detroit News

  • No Mandate for Government Health Care
    Editorial
    Washington Times

  • Obama, Health Care, and the New Road to Serfdom
    by Richard M. Ebeling
    Christian Science Monitor

  • Perverse Health Care Incentives
    by Sheldon Richman
    Foundation for Economic Education

  • Obamacare Is Unconstitutional
    by Gene Healy
    Cato Institute

  • The Patient or the State?
    by C.L. Gray
    Washington Times

  • If Government Ran Health Care, It Could Also Deny It
    by Michael J. Hurd
    USA Today

  • We Pay Them to Lie to Us
    by John Stossel
    Townhall.com

  • Senate Health Care Bill: The Five Paragraphs You Must Read
    by Sue Blevins and
    Robin Kaigh
    Christian Science Monitor

  • Should Washington Dictate Breast Exams?
    by C.L. Gray
    Detroit News

  • The Mandated Health Insurance Outrage
    by Sheldon Richman
    Foundation for Economic Education

  • Health Care Is Not a Right
    by Iain Murray and
    Roger Abbott
    Competitive Enterprise Institute

  • Unlawful Health Reform?
    by George F. Will
    Washington Post

  • Unlawful Health Reform?
    by George F. Will
    Washington Post

  • Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine (Audio)
    by Ronald Reagan
    YouTube.com

  • Clueless or Despotic?
    by Richard W. Rahn
    Washington Times

  • Pelosi's New Payroll Tax
    by Terence P. Jeffrey
    Washington Times

  • Government-Run Regardless
    by Robert A. Book
    Washington Times

  • Health Insurance Scam
    by Sheldon Richman
    Foundation for Economic Education

  • The U.S. House of Presumptuous Meddlers
    by John Stossel
    Townhall.com

  • Healthcare Reform is Economic Malpractice
    by Ron Paul
    U.S. House of Representatives

  • Tax Penalties and Prison
    by Donald Lambro
    Washington Times

  • We Can't Sit Back and Allow the Loss of Our Freedoms
    by Andrew Napolitano
    Fox News

  • You'll Get Obamacare and Love It. Or Else
    by Jay Ambrose
    Washington Examiner

  • Kiss Your Freedoms Goodbye If Health Care Passes
    by Andrew Napolitano
    Fox News

  • Obama's Hidden Fees
    by Jacob Sullum
    Washington Times

  • The "Costs" of Care
    by Thomas Sowell
    Washington Times

  • An Option for Public: Less Government, More Choice
    by Jeff Jacoby
    Boston Globe

  • Beware the Health Insurance Police
    by Donald Lambro
    Washington Times

  • Mandatory Savings?
    by Jacob Sullum
    Washington Times

  • Hyperbole in the Health Debate
    by Jeff Jacoby
    Boston Globe

  • The Welfare State Corrupts Absolutely
    by Sheldon Richman
    Foundation for Economic Education

  • Health Care Hypocrisy
    by Laurence M. Vance
    Campaign for Liberty

  • Don't Redistribute Wealth via Medical Premiums
    by Vivek Rajasekhar
    USA Today

  • Fraud Plagues Government Health Care
    Editorial
    Washington Examiner

  • Doctors Stir, Half Asleep
    by Ken Klukowski
    Washington Times

  • Fannie Med? Another Financial Fraud on the Public? (pdf)
    by Steven Horwitz
    Virginia News Source

  • Open Wide and Say "Ah"!
    by Terence P. Jeffrey
    Washington Times

  • How an Insurance Mandate Could Leave Many Worse Off
    by Tyler Cowen
    New York Times

  • The Doctor Will See You
    by Eric Novack
    Washington Times

  • The Health-Insurance Market Is Not Free
    by Anton Batey
    Ludwig von Mises Institute

  • Health Care in Massachusetts: A Warning for America
    by Paul Hsieh
    Christian Science Monitor

  • Careless Coercion
    by Jacob Sullum
    Washington Times

  • Compulsory Insurance Has Consequences
    by Grace-Marie Turner
    The Examiner

  • Town Halls: If Congress Really Cared What You Think…
    by Jane Orient
    Campaign for Liberty

  • Health Care Debate about Liberty vs. Equality
    by David Davenport and
    Gordon Lloyd
    Washington Examiner

  • Mandatory Insurance: Yes, It's a Tax
    by Jeff Jacoby
    Boston Globe

  • Is Mandatory Health Insurance Constitutional?
    by Declan McCullagh
    CBS News

  • Obama's Immoral Imperative
    by Becky Akers
    Washington Examiner

  • Can Obama Force You to Buy Health Insurance?
    by Anthony Gregory
    Christian Science Monitor

  • Fable for Adults
    by Thomas Sowell
    Washington Times

  • Obama's Medical Collectivism
    by William Anderson
    Campaign for Liberty

  • Health-Care Reform and the Constitution
    by Andrew P. Napolitano
    Wall Street Journal

  • Healthcare Reform Is More Corporate Welfare
    by Ron Paul
    U.S. House of Representatives

  • What "Right" to Health Care?
    by Jeff Jacoby
    Boston Globe

  • Status Quo on Steroids
    by Sheldon Richman
    Foundation for Economic Education

  • Forcing Insurance Companies to Cover Preexisting Conditions Is Immoral
    by Sheldon Richman
    Christian Science Monitor

  • Health Care Through Central Planning: A Helpful Analogy
    by Karen Kwiatkowski
    LewRockwell.com

  • Who Decides What
    by Richard W. Rahn
    Washington Times

  • Should Republicans Save Medicare?
    by Jack Kenny
    New American

  • Invasion of Medical Privacy
    Editorial
    Washington Times

  • Competition
    by John Stossel
    Jewish World Review

  • The Evil-Mongering of the American Medical Association
    by Shikha Dalmia
    Forbes

  • Government Health Care Is Not Moral
    by Greg Knapp
    Washington Examiner

  • Doctors Ready to "Just Say No"
    by Alfred Bonati
    Washington Times

  • Welfare at $193,000?
    by Terence P. Jeffrey
    Washington Times

  • Obama's Health-Insurance Cartel
    by Sheldon Richman
    Foundation for Economic Education

  • Totalitarian Government, Here We Come
    by Samuel L. Blumenfeld
    World Net Daily

  • I am Finally Scared of a White House Administration
    by Nat Hentoff
    Jewish World Review

  • Learning from Canada's Mistakes
    Editorial
    Washington Times

  • Unfair Government Competition
    Editorial
    Washington Times

  • Whole-Grain Health Reform
    by Kathleen Parker
    Washington Post

  • Leviathan Health Bill Diagnosis
    by Terence P. Jeffrey
    Washington Times

  • What's Up with That?
    by Mark Steyn
    Washington Times

  • Obama Misidentifies 'Rationing'
    Editorial
    Washington Times

  • The Ignored Solution in Health Care
    by Sheldon Richman
    Foundation for Economic Education

  • Obama's Secret, Private Side
    by Lawrence Kudlow
    Washington Times

  • Rationing Away Medical Care
    Editorial
    Washington Times

  • Congress Ration Health Care? No Way
    by Nolan Finley
    Detroit News

  • Selling Out Private Coverage
    Editorial
    Washington Times

  • So, You Want to Replace Profit-Driven Health Care with Politics-Driven
    by J.D. Tuccille
    The Examiner

  • Big Business Goes Big for Health Care Reform
    by John Stossel
    Townhall.com

  • Health Plan Is Legalized Stealing
    Editorial
    TheSpectrum.com

  • The Market Doesn't Ration Health Care
    by Sheldon Richman
    Foundation for Economic Education

  • Bureaucrats Are Not Better Judges than the Consumer
    Editorial
    Boston Globe

  • Healthcare Plan Based on Economic Fantasy
    by Ron Paul
    U.S. House of Representatives

  • The Myth of Free Market Health Care in America
    by Shikha Dalmia
    Reason

  • Are We Really All Healthcare Collectivists Now?
    by Sheldon Richman
    Foundation for Economic Education

  • I Was a Victim of U.S. Government Care
    by Richard E. Ralston
    Detroit News

  • Healthcare: Do We Need the Lexus?
    by Jeff Jacoby
    Boston Globe

  • None Dare Say Rationing
    by Jonah Goldberg
    Boston Herald

  • Bringing "Inefficiencies"
    by Jacob Sullum
    Washington Times

  • Healthy, Wealthy, Unwise
    by Terence P. Jeffrey
    Washington Times

  • Anesthetized Debate
    by Thomas Sowell
    Washington Times

  • A Cornucopia of Healthcare Fallacies
    by Sheldon Richman
    Foundation for Economic Education

  • Arrogance
    by John Stossel
    TownHall.com

  • Destroying Private Health Insurance
    Editorial
    Washington Times

  • Government Creates Human Suffering
    by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.
    LewRockwell.com

  • A Deadly Organ Donor System
    by Jeff Jacoby
    Boston Globe

  • "Better" Health Care?
    by John Stossel
    Townhall.com

  • Obamacare Failed in Europe
    by Guillaume Vuillemey and
    Philip Stevens
    Washington Examiner

  • A Health 'Reform' to Regret
    by George F. Will
    Washington Post

  • Should Picking Health Coverage that Suits You Be a Crime?
    by J.D. Tuccille
    Washington Examiner

  • The Misrepresentation of Health Care Reform
    by Sheldon Richman
    Foundation for Economic Education

  • Government-Provided Medicine Threatens a Loss of Choice
    by J.D. Tuccille
    The Examiner

  • Obama's Impossible Healthcare Reform Promises
    by Sheldon Richman
    Foundation for Economic Education

  • The Cost of Government Health Care
    Editorial
    Washington Times

  • Health Care "Reform," Big Business, and the Harry and Louise Myth
    by Timothy P. Carney
    Timothy P. Carney

  • Family Fight Against Chemotherapy Is About Freedom
    by James Schorr
    USA Today

  • The Government's No-Competition Health Care Plan
    by Roger Stark
    The Examiner

  • Medical Misunderstanding
    by Sheldon Richman
    Foundation for Economic Education

  • The Medicare Ponzi Scheme
    by John Stossel
    Townhall.com

  • A Stealth Budget Bill
    by Matt Kibbe
    Washington Times

  • Don't Let Europe's Health Failure Drag U.S. Down
    by Grace-Marie Turner
    Detroit News

  • Great Medical Records Roundup
    by James Bovard
    Washington Times

  • Health of the State
    by James Bovard
    American Conservative

  • Don't Crowd Out Insurers
    by Robert Moffit
    USA Today

  • Universal Healthcare and the Waistline Police
    by Paul Hsieh
    Christian Science Monitor

  • Healthy Bank Balance
    by Richard Smith
    The Guardian

  • Yes, I Know What's Not Good for Me
    by Stephen Pollard
    London Times

  • Congressional Control of Health Care Is Dangerous for Children
    by Ron Paul
    U.S. House of Representatives

  • Spoonful of Government
    by Mark Steyn
    Washington Times

  • Socialized Medicine Is Broken and Can't Be Fixed
    by John Stossel
    Townhall.com

  • Sick Sob Stories
    by John Stossel
    Wall Street Journal

  • Costly 'Affordable' Health Care
    by Paul Belein
    Washington Times

  • “Sicko” in Canada
    by Terrence C. Watson
    Washington Times

  • Health Care: Government vs. Private
    by Walter E. Williams
    George Mason University

  • Freedom to Smoke
    by Justin D. Powers
    Boston Globe

  • Socialism Not Health Care Solution
    by Howard J. Blitz
    Yuma Sun

  • Diagnosing Our Health Care Woes
    by Ron Paul
    U.S. House of Representatives

  • Why Is Medical Care So Expensive?
    by Hans F. Sennholz
    LewRockwell.com

  • Private Efforts Not a Conflict in Drug Research
    by Richard E. Ralston
    Boston Globe

  • Dental Socialism in Britain
    by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
    LewRockwell.com

  • Forced Health Coverage Wrong Path
    by Howard J. Blitz
    Yuma Sun

  • Massachusetts Will Fail
    by Sally Pipes
    USA Today

  • Wal-Mart Health Benefit Blues
    by Alan Reynolds
    Washington Times

  • Something for Nothing?
    by Thomas Sowell
    Washington Times

  • My Diabetes Isn't Government Business
    by Sandra A. Sawicki
    Washington Post

  • Germany's Hillarycare
    Editorial
    Washington Times

  • The Sugar Police
    Editorial
    Washington Times

  • Do We Want This?
    by Walter E. Williams
    George Mason University

  • FDA in a Pain-Pill Panic
    by Donald Devine
    Washington Times

  • Medical R&D Miracle
    by Doug Bandow
    Washington Times

  • When Pharmacists Refuse, Market Is Best Medicine
    Editorial
    USA Today

  • National Health Insurance: The Wrong Rx
    by Jeff Jacoby
    Boston Globe

  • Screening a Child's Mind
    by Gregory M. Lamb
    Christian Science Monitor

  • Greedy or Ignorant
    by Walter E. Williams
    George Mason University

  • Mandatory Mental Health Screening Threatens Privacy, Parental Rights
    by Wendy McElroy
    Fox News

  • Make Health Care More Affordable
    by Howard J. Blitz
    Yuma Sun

  • Free Health Care
    by Walter E. Williams
    George Mason University

  • Free Market Is the Answer
    by Michael F. Cannon
    USA Today

  • Doctors Launch Cash-Only Practices
    by Anne Thompson
    MSNBC

  • Doctors Eying the U.S.: Canada Is Sick About It
    by Clifford Krauss
    New York Times


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