For all the talk about the Affordable Care Act's mandate to purchase insurance, you might think that the mandate is the linchpin of the entire law. It isn't, at least from the standpoint of whether the insurance market will collapse without it. 

The dirty little secret of American healthcare is that the mandate wouldn’t save taxpayers a dime. Why? Because the tax subsidies for people with health insurance are bigger than the unpaid medical bills left behind by the uninsured.

Whether or not the individual mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) proves to be constitutionally valid, it is based on mistaken premises, faulty economic analysis, short-sighted politics, and seriously flawed health policy.

Think the contraception decision was bad? Wait until bureaucrats start telling your insurer which cancer screenings to cover.

If financial stability was at the top of the central banks' agenda by 1999, one can reasonably wonder what they were doing about it from 1999 to 2007.

This week, a grassroots organization in Massachusetts announced plans to launch a ballot initiative to repeal the state's individual mandate to purchase health insurance. Massachusetts Citizens for Life is primarily concerned about how the growing cost of health care in the state will lead to rationing and denial of care.

To achieve the changes they want and that voters endorsed in 2010, Republicans need to win again in 2012.

Requirements to test new drugs against older medicines would add a major hurdle to the development and approval of new medicines. Equally important, the proposed mandates are unnecessary.