Constitution Day: What Does the Constitution Say About Health Care?

By: Ben Domenech (Diary)  |  September 17th at 01:25 AM  | 

For Constitution Day, the Heartland Institute is providing a look at what the Constitution actually says about some of the key policy areas we deal with today — read what the Constitution says about Education here. Needless to say, when the United States Constitution was ratified in 1788, the concept of health care was very different than it is today. Standardized treatments for diseases were | Read More »

Severability and Obamacare

By: Ben Domenech (Diary)  |  August 17th at 02:00 PM  | 

Several state legislators have reached out to me recently with questions about the nature of severability and Obamacare. Since some Redstaters seem to have questions as well, I thought I’d explain a bit about what this means. Most laws of large size and scope have something called a “severability clause” attached to them. Essentially, this means that if one part of a piece of large | Read More »