Commentary

Congress Should Act Against Mandatory Medicare

By Quin Hillyer
Wednesday, January 16 2013

In a hugely disappointing end to a long-running legal battle, the Supreme Court refused to consider whether a federal agency can enforce a burdensome new policy, invented out of thin air, without even going through a formal regulatory process. But the overall policy fight should not be over. Instead, it should be shifted, with great fanfare, to the political arena. The issue, about which I’ve written many times, involves a bureaucratic sleight of hand by which: The feds… insist that anybody who voluntary turns down Medicare hospital benefits (even while still paying full Medicare…

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