In a typically excellent column on the HHS contraception mandate, Overreach: Obamacare vs. the Constitution, Charles Krauthammer asks:
Has anyone considered the import of this new mandate? The president of the United States has just ordered private companies to give away for free a service that his own health and human services secretary has repeatedly called a major financial burden.
On what authority? Where does it say that the president can unilaterally order a private company to provide an allegedly free-standing service at no cost to certain select beneficiaries?
Well, yes. Someone has considered the import of this new mandate.