It's a bit of an upset, but good to see the 6CA panel do the right thing. It should be noted that while both majority opinions do an excellent job of attacking the bad commerce clause arguments underlying the challenge to the ACA, James Graham's...
health care
Over the past couple of years four people I've had some sort of relationship with were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, so I've gotten to know more than I ever wanted.
Bobo engages in his trademark style of argument, focusing on abstractions and ignoring evidence about whether or not markets actually work for a given problem. Cohn does a good job.
Joe Nocera's pleas to accept the Ryan plan as a conversation-starter notwithstanding, there's no conversation less in need of starting than the conversation about how to reduce Social Security and Medicare benefits. It's hard to think of another topic Beltway pundits are more likely to...
Yglesias: Watching Paul Ryan earlier today talking at the Peterson Fiscal Summit I was amazed by the number of times he said the word “Mediscare,” which is a conservative jargon.
On the question of whether Bernie Sanders is awesome, the answer is here. And as for my Senator... well, he certainly has nice hair.
I think this is an important point: arguments that various Democratic proposals on health care were once "Republican proposals" are misleading, in the sense that it's not as if Republicans enacted them when they controlled government or anything. It's misleading to imply that the Republicans...
Health care is not a regular consumer good in which normal market incentives apply.
D.C. federal district judge Gladys Kessler issued the latest ruling, reinforcing the partisan trend. Her opinion is a very solid piece of work, and provides a good account of the.
Group A: People who argue that the individual mandate in the ACA is unconstitutional because it must be unconstitutional to force people to "purchase a private product" irrespective of its effect on interstate commerce. Group B: People who strongly support gutting Social Security and replacing...
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.
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.