Politically convenient… =========== March 4, 2015 7:03 p.m. ET A closely divided Supreme Court heard arguments in the challenge to ObamaCare’s illegal subsidies on Wednesday, and the session spun off in an unexpected and provocative direction: To wit, several Justices suggested that the Affordable Care Act as drafted would unconstitutionally coerce the states. King v. Burwell turns on the statute’s plain text limiting health... Read more
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An Off-Ramp From ObamaCare
March 7 | Posted by mrossol | ObamaCareIt could get interesting when the Supreme Court rules. Lots of details lacking, but at least someone has offered a proposal. ============ March 2, 2015 7:00 p.m. ET Editor’s note: The following was written by Republicans John Kline, Paul Ryan and Fred Upton, chairmen, respectively, of the House committees on Education and Workforce, Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce. On Wednesday the... Read more
Healthcare More Important Than The Law
February 14 | Posted by mrossol | Liberal Press, ObamaCareYou wonder why the liberal media isn’t all over these vv since they come from another version of “Wall Street Bankers” – don’t they? ========== Feb. 13, 2015 6:50 p.m. One goal of ObamaCare was to compel the private companies of the U.S. health industry to become adjuncts of the federal government. In that respect the law is succeeding beautifully, judging... Read more
Fannie Med Implodes
December 29 | Posted by mrossol | ObamaCareDec. 28, 2014 7:19 p.m. Liberals claim ObamaCare is “working,” whatever that means, but the reality is that the law is seeding the insurance markets with land mines that will explode over time. The sudden detonation of a taxpayer-backed insurer in Iowa and Nebraska is an early warning. Last week the Iowa Attorney General and insurance commissioner forced a nonprofit insurance start-up... Read more
Vermont’s Single Payer Washout
December 27 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, ObamaCareI did not see this covered in the NYT. ================= Dec. 22, 2014 7:10 p.m. ET Believe it or not, there really are liberals disappointed that ObamaCare does not involve more taxation and central planning of medicine. So be grateful for the state laboratories of federalism and in particular Vermont, where the purest progressive version of ObamaCare has imploded. Last week, in a reversal... Read more
We Passed the Law Thanks to the ‘Stupidity of the American Voter’
November 10 | Posted by mrossol | ObamaCareOne of the writers of Obamacare… talk about a smoking gun. Of course, H.L. Menken had it right many years ago: “No one yet has ever gone broke overestimating the stupidity of the American people.” ===== One of the architects of Obamacare said the law was written in a deliberately “tortured” way and relied on the “stupidity of the American voter” to ensure... Read more
