Graphic: Obamacare And The Law

This is how the Obamacare is supposedly structured...

chart from Joint Economic Committee (Republican) /hat tip Daniel Mitchell of Cato

According to Frederic Bastiat, [The Law (p.69)] (all bold emphasis mine, italic original)

The mission of the law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even though the law may be acting in a philanthropic spirit. Its mission is to protect persons and property. Furthermore, it must not be said that the law may be philanthropic if, in the process, it refrains from oppressing persons and plundering them of their property; this would be a contradiction.

The law cannot avoid having an effect upon persons and property; and if the law acts in any manner except to protect them, its actions then necessarily violate the liberty of persons and their right to own property.

The law is justice--simple and clear, precise and bounded. Every eye can see it, and every mind can grasp it; for justice is measurable, immutable, and unchangeable. Justice is neither more than this nor less than this.

A law that is perplexing in complexity like the Obamacare exemplifies or embodies what we call as arbitrary law--a law opposed to the fundamental concept of clear, precise and bounded (observable), of protecting property rights and of equal treatment of application (enforceability). Hence, Obamacare is unlikely a law that would serve to promote its mission--social justice.