Manhattan Moment: Obamacare may be constitutional, but it is bad policy

Published June 28, 2012 4:00am ET



In his decision yesterday, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that “we do not consider whether the [Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act] embodies sound policies.” That is, to put it mildly, an understatement.

While it may be constitutional, Obamacare remains fundamentally flawed legislation that creates a massive health care entitlement, slashes hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicare (endangering seniors’ access to care) and imposes hundreds of billions in taxes on the economy — hardly a recipe for escaping our current economic doldrums. Sooner or later, Congress will be forced to repeal and replace it.

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