The NHSC mandate.

The Patchwork Mandate

One Australian university (Queensland University of Technology) that mandates deposit of its publications is leading the world in collecting 70% of its annual research output and the fraction is rising. This level of success is surprising, since the researcher's world is hemmed in with requirements to teach, to ask for student evaluations, to write and mark examinations, to supervise Ph.D. stud...

Design f the MANDATE MIB

In today’s global marketplace, most large-scale enterprises have widely-dispersed w manufacturing and commercial operations that are connected by a communications net ork. The enterprise communication networks of the future are expected to be hetero, fi geneous in several dimensions: mixed-media physical transmission facilities (e.g. copper ber-optic, satellite); multi-media information transmi...

Does the Individual Mandate Coerce?

The ghost that slayed the mandate.

Virginia v. Sebelius is a federal lawsuit in which Virginia has challenged President Obama's signature legislative initiative of health care reform. Virginia has sought declaratory and injunctive relief to vindicate a state statute declaring that no Virginia resident shall be required to buy health insurance. To defend this state law from the preemptive effect of federal law, Virginia has conte...

The constitutionality of the individual mandate.