February 14, 2012 2:41PM 

# HuffPo Oped: ‘The Illiberality of ObamaCare’ 

By [Michael F. Cannon](https://www.cato.org/people/michael-f-cannon) 

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My [latest](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-f-cannon/the-illiberality-of-obama_b_1276621.html):

> On Friday, President Obama tried to quell the uproar over his ongoing effort to force Catholics (and everyone else) to pay for contraceptives, sterilization, and pharmaceutical abortions. Unfortunately, the non-compromise he floated does not reduce by [one penny](http://www.thebigquestions.com/2012/02/13/your-president-hopes-youre-stupid/) the amount of money he would force Catholics to spend on those items. Worse, this mandate is just one manifestation of how the president’s health care law will grind up the freedom of every American.

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