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 intellectual prowess, they must possess a rudimentary understanding of the basic institutional structure outlined in the very Constitution that they plan to patronizingly read on the […]
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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 measur
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 purch
…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 anyway.
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 op
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 that peo
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 topic (some from way back) and try to make a series of it. The first installment has to do with health care; the wife’s pregnancy […]
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. Longer: &
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 admire Nancy Pelosi’s skill as a legislator. But it’s also pretty worrying. Are we now in a world where there is absolutely no recourse to […]
I’m not sure how Ben Stein’s understanding of Constitutional law compares with his understanding of science or the convolutions of the market, but he certainly has a flair for atom-splitti
In short, I think it’s highly unlikely. The big difference between Citizens United and a potential commerce clause challenge is that the Court had a steady trend of being more aggressive in