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Health Care ‘Freedom’, Medicare ‘Enrollment’ And Other Paralogisms: Hall V Sebelius, Mel Cousins

Mel Cousins

Rather overshadowed by the Supreme Court hearings on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), another case involving a claim for health care ‘freedom’ has recently been dismissed by the DC circuit court of appeals. The case is entirely without any legal interest (or indeed legal merit) and, from a purely legal point of view, is barely worth reporting. Nonetheless from a broader political science perspective, it may be worth noting. From this perspective the ongoing health care litigation (of which Hall v Sebelius is a rather peripheral part) might tend to re-establish a view of …