Broccoli mandate

The broccoli mandate,[1][2] also known as the broccoli test,[3] broccoli argument,[4] broccoli hypothetical or broccoli horrible,[5] was an argument used by those opposed to healthcare reform in the United States proposed by Barack Obama, who was then the President of the United States.

  1. ^ Orentlicher, David (2011). "Can Congress Make You Buy Broccoli - And Why It Really Doesn't Matter". Southern California Law Review Postscript. 84: 9.
  2. ^ Somin, Ilya. "A Mandate for Mandates: Is the Individual Health Insurance Case a Slippery Slope?." Law and Contemporary Problems 75, no. 3 (2012): 75-106.
  3. ^ Elhauge, Einer (November 16, 2011). "The Broccoli Test" (PDF). The New York Times. p. A35.
  4. ^ Elhauge, Einer (January 5, 2012). "The Irrelevance of the Broccoli Argument against the Insurance Mandate". New England Journal of Medicine. 366 (1): e1. doi:10.1056/NEJMp1113618. ISSN 0028-4793. PMID 22187959.
  5. ^ "'The Broccoli Horrible': A Culinary-Legal Dissent". The New Yorker. June 28, 2012.