DALLAS, TX - Dr. Merrill Matthews, health policy expert and resident scholar of the Dallas-based Institute for Policy Innovation resident scholar, as well as Forbes columnist, said the following regarding today’s historic Supreme Court decision regarding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
“The Court has upheld most of the Affordable Care Act, including the individual mandate as constitutional under Congress’ taxing powers,” said Matthews.
“President Obama could always have stepped in to say the law is a tax but that would have been politically unpalatable,” he said. “If it is a tax, it becomes the largest tax increase in history.“
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