According to Randy Barnett and David Oedel, ObamaCare represents one instance where providing for the "general welfare" may not be the usual congressional blank check. Quite the opposite.
This defect is true of the new health law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Although the constitutional objections to its individual insurance mandate—the requirement that any person who isn't provided insurance by his employer buy it on his own—have gotten all the public attention, the law also has a "general welfare" problem.
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