Commentary

Medicare Case Challenges Bureaucratic Coercion

By Quin Hillyer
Monday, August 27 2012

Governmental coercion, without benefit of due legal process, is just as wrong when used against an individual as when used against a state. A legal case about which I have written numerous times, regarding how the federal government is wrongfully conditioning earned Social Security benefits on the acceptance of unwanted Medicare benefits, has now received an extra jolt of juice from part of the Supreme Court’s decision on ObamaCare this summer. Last Friday, the plaintiffs petitioned the high court to issue a writ of certiorari to hear their case against this unlawful coercion, and the case…

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