ObamaCare's Next Constitutional Challenge

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Author(s)	Richard Epstein, Mario Loyola
Source	The Wall Street Journal
Date	June 7, 2011
URL	http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304474804576367690213892556.html
Quote	The Medicaid provision of ObamaCare spells the death knell to competition among the states. States cannot function as "laboratories of democracy"—as the 10th Amendment intended—if the federal government can use its power to tax and spend to bludgeon all states into conformity.

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This item argues for the position Act should not have been passed on the topic Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.