I have some thoughts inspired by Jon Cohn's article about constitutional challenges to the ACA. The short version is that I doubt that even a scenario where the Supreme Court strikes down the mandate -- which I still regard as relatively unlikely -- would have...
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A bill to repeal the health care law drew the full force of both parties Tuesday as debate on the measure opened in the House, launching a two-year battle over.
A superficial analysis of the House Republicans' pledge to vote to repeal health care reform is that it's nothing more than a symbolic gesture. While many might downplay their modest.
I have a piece at the Daily Beast about the ACA decision which suggests some reasons to be skeptical. I'm particularly interested in the assertion that the professional quality -- as measured by the craft values of the legal profession -- of the arguments in...
As others have noted, Henry Hudson's opinion holding that the mandate provision of the ACA was unconstitutional contained the bizarre argument that "[i]f a person’s decision not to purchase health.
...matters if the Supreme Court will uphold it. I continue to think that this is very unlikely, and if they did it would probably produce a better health care policy.
The post below reminds me that I had been meaning to blog about these Dana Milbank speculations about how Clinton might have been better. He bases this around some discussions with Clinton campaign operatives -- let's call them "Park Menn." Exactly how would she have...
This is an important fact: Conservatives have made a concerted effort to portray public opposition to health care reform as an ideological rejection of liberalism and government. The truth is.
Friday will be the girl's first birthday, and in honor of one year as a parent I thought that I would toss together a few things I wrote on the.
In fairness, when it comes to trusting states to administer important federal social programs, what could possibly go wrong?
1. Poetic justice. Shorter: states that had tight-fisted approaches to health care in general and medicaid in particular are worried about the burden imposed by the health care reform law..
Henry's give 'em enough rope approach to this remarkable McArdle post is a sound one. As an alternative, I'll try isolating a couple particularly instructive sentences: One cannot help but.