The Economist: “Efforts to Challenge Obamacare Are Gaining Momentum”

From a recent news item in The Economist:

[M]illions of Americans…think that Barack Obama’s health‐​insurance laws must be overturned…[P]olls suggest that many Americans still dislike them…


At the federal level Republican leaders in Congress have jumped on every bit of negative news — for example, a recent report from the Congressional Budget Office suggesting that the reforms will cost more than originally forecast — as just cause for overturning them…


The real action is outside Washington, though. Virginia, Utah and Idaho have outlawed the new individual mandate, which will require everyone to purchase health cover, and other states are looking at similar measures. Elsewhere, opponents have taken to the ballot box. Missouri will hold a referendum in August on the matter. Perhaps half a dozen other states may see a constitutional amendment blocking Obamacare on the ballot in November.


Critics have also filed various lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of health reform. In the most prominent nearly two dozen states, almost all led by Republicans, have banded together. Their chief legal argument is that the new individual mandate is unconstitutional. On May 14th the National Federation of Independent Business, a trade group representing small companies (who worry especially about the costs of compliance with the new law), declared that it too would join in.

Repeal the bill.