This article by NYU law professor and legal scholar extraordinaire Richard Epstein, provides some important insight as to why the Affordable Care Act is doomed to failure and ultimate repeal. Here are two money quotes–classic Epstein.

The extraordinary claims for government domination over individual rights comes front and center when the President announces that he will protect the fundamental right to healthcare by barring ordinary folks from acquiring coverage in the voluntary market, in order to force them to seek coverage they don’t want—like treating maternity care for men as an essential minimum benefit—in a nonfunctional government market that serves none of their personal needs.

Even the most ardent defender of government power must concede that it is sickening when a president tells people without healthcare insurance that they must navigate his government websites or go without. If “the right to healthcare” is fundamental, Obamacare violates it. Delay here is no option. If left in place, every single structural problem that besets Obamacare today will continue to wreck innocent lives a year from now. Striking it down is an act of mercy for the American people.

Also, while you are at it, be sure to listen to the podcast interview with Epstein accessible to the left of the article. Or you can go directly to it here.