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Appeals Court Oral Arguments Signal Trouble for Obamacare HHS Mandate

By |2020-04-23T21:52:46-04:00December 16th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on December 15, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

A top federal appeals court signaled Friday that it might act on Obamacare’s HHS Mandate–requiring employers to cover birth control and abortion-related services.

After repeated assurances that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would not mandate abortion or people of faith violating their religious beliefs, the Obama administration issued a mandate requiring both, when Secretary Kathleen Sebelius issued a rule from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) saying that a vague provision in the ACA requiring employers provide “preventive care” means that employer healthcare policies must […]

Obamacare Will Create Two Americas for Healthcare

By |2020-04-23T21:48:00-04:00November 16th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on November 14, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

If Obamacare survives the 2016 election after it is fully implemented, there will be two healthcare systems in America from which our citizens will choose.

As former Ohio Treasurer Ken Blackwell and I explained months ago, the fifty states can freely choose whether to participate in two central pillars of Obamacare. Conservative governors will be glad in the end, if they hold true to their principles to reject this big-government takeover of healthcare.

First, Obamacare expands taxpayer-funded healthcare under Medicaid. The one part of Obamacare that the […]

Dismissed Obamacare Lawsuit May Return to Lower Court

By |2020-04-23T21:52:47-04:00November 9th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on November 2, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

Just when most people thought all legal challenges to the Individual Mandate were dead and buried, one springs back to life, and with a twist.

Unless they’ve been living under a rock, most Americans have heard that the Supreme Court decided a constitutional challenge to Obamacare’s infamous Individual Mandate in NFIB v. Sebelius. Plenty of Americans are unaware, however, that out of over 30 cases challenging the Mandate, NFIB was only one of five challenges that were considered serious and credible.

Another one […]

ACRU Brief Asks Supreme Court to Hear Colleges' Case against HHS Contraception Mandate

By |2012-10-15T12:57:13-04:00October 15th, 2012|

Lower federal courts erred in dismissing two colleges’ challenges to the Obama Administration’s contraception mandate, the ACRU argues in an amicus brief filed on Oct. 12 at the U.S. Supreme Court. The brief in Wheaton College and Belmont Abbey College v. Kathleen Sebelius states that:

“Both rulings under review permit expansion of the power of the executive branch far beyond its constitutional limits. Specifically, by dismissing the Colleges’ complaints, the ruling below places in the hands of an executive agency a vast power to strip the court of jurisdiction to review executive regulations.”

The ACRU’s brief notes that the lower courts […]

Obama's Medicaid Plan Exposes Him as an Enemy of the Poor

By |2012-10-07T19:00:14-04:00October 7th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published October 5, 2012 on Forbes.com.

As in so much else, Progressives hold an outdated conception of the debate over entitlements. They conceive it as the Left supporting generous entitlements for seniors and the poor with no questions asked, no obligations expected, versus the right supporting no safety net at all, let private charity handle it, and if some of the poor have to starve, and some of the sick suffer or die without health care, because private charity is inadequate, so […]

Why Senior Citizens Should Prefer Ryan's Medicare Plan to Obama's

By |2012-09-27T22:43:12-04:00September 27th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published September 27, 2012 on Forbes.com.

DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz described the Medicare reforms proposed by GOP Vice-Presidential nominee and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) as “literally a death trap for seniors.” White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters that Ryan’s reforms would “change Medicare as we know it.”

But it was Obamacare that already changed Medicare as we know it, transforming it literally into a death trap for seniors. Obamacare cut Medicare by $716 billion […]

Bill Clinton Fed His Flock Democratic Daydreams and Fairy Tales

By |2012-09-10T19:47:47-04:00September 10th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published September 2, 2012 on Forbes.com.

Rhetoric versus reality. That is what this election is about, based on what we saw at the Democrat convention. Instead of a path to the American Dream, Democrats presented to America their fanciful daydreams.

The ever trustworthy Bill Clinton told the American people Wednesday night, “If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining…you should vote for Barack Obama.” But not on the […]

The New Face of Health Care — the IRS

By |2012-08-19T22:13:10-04:00August 19th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 17, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

When President Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, aka “Obamacare”) goes fully into effect in 2014, the American people will only then begin to see the implications of its thorough government takeover of health care, in all its glory. But what they are not expecting is the massively expanded role of the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) in our lives, as the IRS is the chief agency responsible for enforcing the Act.

That is explained […]

Obama's Calculated Deception

By |2012-08-01T21:36:08-04:00August 1st, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 1, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

Calculated Deception. That is the central theme of the Obama campaign. Calculated Deception is the term I use for Obama’s rhetorical practice of trying to take advantage of what he calculates the average person does not know, and his party-controlled, so-called mainstream media won’t report. And that can be seen over and over in the Obama campaign.

Obscuring the Worst Recovery Since the Great Depression

In Monday’s Wall Street Journal, Edward Lazear, former Bush chairman […]

How President Obama Is Deceiving You On Tax Policy

By |2012-07-31T14:39:04-04:00July 31st, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published July 25, 2012 on Forbes.com.

The central theme of President Obama’s tax policy has been that “the rich” (whatever that is supposed to mean) do not pay their fair share of federal taxes, and the middle class pays more as a result. But the CBO just issued a new report this month that proves him grievously wrong.

“The Distribution of Household Income and Federal Taxes, 2008 and 2009,” issued by CBO on July 12, reports that the top 1% […]

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