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New Federal Initiatives Project

July 10, 2009

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Healthcare reform is a promised major initiative of the Obama administration. Below are links to several articles, white papers, and letters that examine the legal and constitutional questions raised by the current proposals. Also available in links below are the healthcare reform bill proposed by Senator Kennedy, a White House fact sheet on its healthcare reform efforts, and other documents released by President Obama on healthcare reform.

--"The Obama Administration’s Budget Proposal for Health and Human Services" by Paula M. Stannard

--Federalist Society Health Care Reform Online Debate

--Federalist Society Individual Mandate Online Debate

--Affordable Health Choices Act (PDF)

--White House Fact Sheet (PDF)

--President Obama's Letter to Congress on Healthcare Reform

--"Illegal Health Reform" by David B. Rivkin, Jr. and Lee A. Casey

--"Is Government Health Care Constitutional?" by David B. Rivkin, Jr. and Lee A. Casey

--"Mandatory Insurance is Unconstitutional" by David B. Rivkin, Jr. and Lee A. Casey

--Letter to Senators Hutchison and Cornyn from Greg Abbott, Texas Attorney General (PDF)

--Letter to the Honorable Nancy Pelosi and the Honorable Harry Reid from Henry McMaster, South Carolina Attorney General, et al. (PDF)

--"Constitutional objections to Obamacare don't hold up" by Akhil Reed Amar