Hans von Spakovsky

ACORN Challenges Cut-Off Of Federal Funds After Child Prostitution Scandal, Claiming It Is ‘Unconstitutional’

OpenMarket (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009

... from ACORN, which has become an embarrassment to its one-time supporters. Legal scholars like Hans Von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation have explained why Congress’s cut-off of funds to ACORN was perfectly constitutional . It is easy to see why Congress would not want scarce federal funds to go to ACORN, which has a long history of terrible financial mismanagement, waste of funds,...

Health Care Bill Improves Lawyers’ Financial Health

Cato-at-liberty (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009

... the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide them a bribe an “incentive payment.” As Hans von Spakovsky notes at NRO’s Corner , this “alternative medical liability law” aims to eviscerate cost-saving measures that protect doctors from frivolous lawsuits that increase the cost of health care to the consumer. So this has nothing to do with providing better or cheaper care,...

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