March 27, 2012 12:48PM # Randy Barnett and the Health Care Overhaul By [David Boaz](https://www.cato.org/people/david-boaz) --- SHARE Cato senior fellow [Randy Barnett](https://www.cato.org/people/randy-barnett) is [featured on the front page of today’s *New York Times*](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/27/us/randy-barnetts-pet-cause-end-of-health-law-hits-supreme-court.html?_r=1&hp) as the chief academic critic of the constitutionality of the 2010 health care law. He spoke at Cato on that topic last Friday; [video here.](https://www.cato.org/multimedia/events/obamacare-supreme-court-panel-1-individual-mandate-severability) The article notes his longstanding interest in the Ninth Amendment, the subject of his book published by Cato and the George Mason University Press in 1989, *[The Rights Retained by the People: The History and Meaning of the Ninth Amendment.](http://www.amazon.com/Rights-Retained-People-Randy-Barnett/dp/0913969370/randyebarnetbost/)* Professor Barnett also cooperated with Cato on his most recent book, *[Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty](https://www.cato.org/store/books/restoring-lost-constitution-hardback)*. ##### Related Tags [Health Care](https://www.cato.org/health-care), [Constitutional Law](https://www.cato.org/constitutional-law), [Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies](https://www.cato.org/robert-levy-center-constitutional-studies) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).