Health Care, the Commerce Clause, and “the Broccoli Argument”
March 8, 2011
If Obamacare can mandate the purchase of health insurance, could it in theory also mandate the purchase of broccoli?
Ilya Shapiro
Mark Hall
Cato Institute
Wake Forest University
Ilya Shapiro is a Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute and editor-in-chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review.
Mark Hall is Professor of Law and Public Health at Wake Forest University. He also teaches in the MBA program and is on the research faculty at Wake Forest’s medical school.
