<![CDATA[RealClearPolitics - Articles by ]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/authors/?id=19809Author <![CDATA[Criminalizing Health Care Freedom]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600 The "reformers" in the White House and the House of Representatives have made all too plain their vision of the federal government's power to coerce individual Americans to make the "right" health-care choices. The highly partisan bill the House just passed includes severe penalties for individuals who do not purchase insurance approved by the federal government. By neatly tucking these penalties into the IRS code, the so-called reformers have brought them under the tax-enforcement power of the federal government.

The Congressional Budget Office stated on October 29 that the House bill would generate $167 billion in revenue from "penalty payments." Individual Americans are...]]>