PPACA Amicus Briefs
February 2012
The American Action Forum filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court of the United States in support of the case to overturn the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The brief, signed by 215 experts including 2 Nobel Laureates, dissects the flawed economic logic used by the administration to justify the individual mandate.
January 2012
The American Action Forum filed an amicus brief signed by 102 economists, including two Nobel laureates and former senior government officials, showing the individual mandate cannot be severed from the rest of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) because Congress would not have intended the economic effects of the Act without the mandate.
January 2012
The American Action Forum filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court for the case on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The brief, signed by 101 economists, including two Nobel laureates and multiple former senior government officials, argues that the Medicaid expansion provision of the PPACA unconstitutionally coerces states to act. The amicus brief analyzes public data from governmental sources to quantify the effect of losing federal Medicaid funds and tests whether states could realistically choose to decline Congress' offer.
