Yes, the Health-Care Mandate Is About Liberty
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May 4 (Bloomberg) -- As they await the Supreme Court rulingon the Affordable Care Act, legal critics of the law say theircase is about liberty. If the government can instruct people toobtain health insurance, they keep asking, what’s to stop itfrom requiring them to buy broccoli?
But the real threat to liberty in this case isn’t ahypothetical broccoli law. It’s the problem that the mandateremedies -- the failure of the health-insurance market -- andthe long-standing national crisis of rising health-care coststhat Congress finally found a way to address.