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: "But even with more federal help, the challenge for states like Alabama, Arkansas and...
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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.
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-splitting.
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 applying First Amendment libertarianism to campaign finance, while its commerce clause jurisprudence hasn't...
In comments, McManus points us to what he considers a good progressive argument against passing the health care reform bill. The argument, I think, can be fairly distilled into this.
Fred Barnes is a terribly stupid man. In asserting that "Obamacare" will create a bitterly contentious political environment for decades to come, Barnes writes: We only have to look at.
To his credit, Dennis Kucinich will be voting for health care reform. This had led to some grimly predictable concern trolling from conservatives who have discovered their admiration for Kucinich's integrity just in time to repudiate it. The argument, at least to the extent that...
You may be wondering where the "Obama is coming for your salt!" idea comes from. (Other than pure derangement, I mean.) Apparently, it's a product of one of the oldest.
This illustrates one of the massive inefficiencies that gets built into our massively inefficient health care system by the invidious relationship that can develop between the interests of Big Pharma.
So, according to this (rather informal) National Journal poll of right and left bloggers, 100% of left respondents think that the Democrats will benefit from passing health care legislation through reconciliation. However, 85.7% of right bloggers think that the Democrats will be hurt by passage...
Bart Stupak is happy to blow up health care reform, denying countless people medical care and hence unnecessary illness and death, if access to abortion can't be made more inequitable..
Krugman, after correctly noting the death of irony:The bottom line, then, is that the crusade against health reform has relied, crucially, on utter hypocrisy: Republicans who hate Medicare, tried to.