As you probably heard, Karen Black died. A key actress to so many major films of the 70s, she succumbed to cancer. She could have had a dignified end of life. Or maybe even defeated her cancer. Instead, she lived in the United States, where...
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Oh beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain: Financially, they suffer the consequences. In 2011, 62 percent of women in the United States covered by private plans that.
This is even stupider than the usual Republican paranoia. Evidently, Obama is trying to destroy the NFL--by planning to run ads during NFL games this fall explaining the details of.
A year and a half ago, a friend and former student had a sudden, unexpected medical emergency. She's telling her story here, and it's fantastic stuff. Start at the beginning: I peered over my doctor’s shoulder to have a look for myself at the CT...
Good advice. Date unknown, but early 20th century.
I'll have a piece up shortly at Salon about why it's basically nuts that John Roberts gets to decide what sort of health care system America has. It quotes a.
Not that we should be surprised that Jim DeMint is calling for nullification of the health care law. “I urge every governor to stop implementing the health care exchanges that would help implement the harmful effects of this misguided law. Americans have loudly rejected this...
Adam Litpak had a good article noting that Verrilli's oral argument appealed to Kennedy with the freedom-enhancing qualities of the Affordable Care Act. This motivated Ann Althouse, who didn't seem.
Robert Wright is wondering why the Affordable Care Act wasn't just a straightforward use of the tax power, and his analysis is of course focused on the median votes of.
Given the amount of pushback, I decided to make my argument about legitimacy and the ACA at much greater length. A lot of people seem to think that this particular politically controversial decision with substantial elite support will somehow be different than the many other...
Akhil Reed Amar is making sense: I start with the Constitution here. It’s the power to regulate interstate commerce. Is this a regulation? Yes. It’s just a regulation like regulating.
Jon Cohn has a good post about a subject that's on a lot of minds given the hostile reception the ACA received at the Supreme Court this week: judicial legitimacy. .