Is the Obama Health Care Reform Constitutional? Fried, Tribe and Barnett debate the Affordable Care Act
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HLS professors Charles Fried and Laurence Tribe ’66 and Georgetown University Law Center Professor Randy Barnett ’77—whom HLS Dean Martha Minow called the “mastermind” of the legal challenge against the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—offered their different perspectives on whether the individual mandate portion of the ACA violates the commerce clause of the Constitution and infringes on personal liberties at an event co-sponsored by HLS Federalist Society and the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics . Date: 3/24/11
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