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Journalist Ezra Klein has come out in favor of the proposition that a federal health insurance mandate is constitutional, but the question remains a thorny legal problem.

If a reform bill is passed with an individual mandate, will it pass constitutional muster? The answer isn’t quite as clear as Klein would have us believe.

Angela M. Evans, deputy director of the Congressional Research Service (CRS) at the Library of Congress for the past 13 years, has been appointed a clinical professor in public policy practice in The Lyndon B.

Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. Evans, whose appointment begins next fall, joined CRS in [...]