Atrios is optimistic*: Federal judge strikes down whole law, sez mandate is unconstitutional and cannot be severed from rest of law. Maybe we'll return to my crazy idea to pay for it out of taxes. The problem is, though, that if the entire bill is...
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As expected, Vinson struck down the mandate, and also argued that it couldn't be severed. My initial thoughts are up on TAPPED. The short version is that it probably doesn't.
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.
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 President Barack Obama’s signature domestic achievement. Ahead of the vote Wednesday, House Republican leaders pressed...
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 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 insurance at a particular point in time does not constitute the type of economic activity...
...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.
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 people who don't have government health insurance support the Affordable Care Act. The only...
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?