Why Doesn’t Rachel Zubay Know That Most Provisions of Obamacare Won’t Start...
Rachel Zubay, 32, works as a waitress at Abdalla’s Steak House, in the shadow of a recently idled coal-fired power plant. She’s got two kids, is in the middle of a divorce, has no medical insurance...
View ArticleConservative roots of Obamacare
by Kenneth Thomas Conservative roots of Obamacare The pile-on continues. As I discussed in February, Stuart Butler of the Heritage Foundation wrote a breath-taking op-ed in USA Today (via Don Taylor)...
View ArticleThe Binders That Bind
The most revealing moment last night came as Ann Romney walked toward her husband onstage at the end. That expression on her face. I thought she looked like a woman in a binder. It is, I suppose,...
View ArticleRaising the Price of Pizza 10 to 14 cents. . .
by Bill aka run75441 Raising the Price of Pizza 10 to 14 cents. . . Will pizza and food prices really have to increase to cover healthcare costs for the mostly young employees of the Olive Garden’s,...
View ArticleWhole Foods, Half-Wit
What a spot-on article Run 75441’s piece, “Healthcare Reform; Socialism or Fascism?” is. And what an informative Comments thread. (Wow, Cynthia, who knew? I sure didn’t.) And, folks, don’t miss this...
View ArticleHobby Lobby’s Religion Lobby – [Appended]
About two weeks ago, Dan emailed me with a link to a New York Times article titled “A Flood of Suits Fights Coverage of Birth Control,” by Times reporter Ethan Bronner, published that day. The article...
View ArticleJohn Roberts’ Curious Voting-Statistics Sophism Misconstrues The Census...
In a blog post titled “In Voting Rights Arguments, Chief Justice Misconstrued Census Data” on NPR’s website, veteran NPR Supreme Court correspondent Nina Totenberg deconstructs a sophism offered by...
View ArticleIn the Short Run, We Are All Dead. At Least According to That New Oregon...
Well, we AB types–readers and writers, alike–are familiar with John Maynard Keynes’s famous line that “In the long run, we are all dead.” By which he either meant that economists, if they are to be...
View ArticleThe Internal Blue Cross/Blue Shield Revenue Service. Awesome!
“Since the I.R.S. also is the chief enforcer of Obamacare requirements, [Michele Bachmann] asked whether the I.R.S.’s admission means it ‘will deny or delay access to health care’ for conservatives....
View ArticleWhat Obligations Do Mainstream Media Editors (e.g., The Washington Post’s)...
Compare: When people realize that their most personal, sensitive, intimate, private health-care information is in the hands of the IRS that’s been willing to use people’s tax information against...
View ArticleObamacare and Employment
If you listen to CNBC or read right wing blogs you would think that the Obamacare regulations that require large employers — over 50 full time equivalent employees –to provide their employees...
View ArticleFuel Spill: The Republicans Are About to Admit That Obamacare Helps...
In another setback for President Obama’s health care initiative, the administration has delayed until 2015 a significant consumer protection in the law that limits how much people may have to spend on...
View ArticleOkay, What Is It About This That I’m Not Understanding?
Union leaders note that under the law, workers whose family income is less than four times the poverty line will qualify for subsidies in the form of tax credits to obtain health insurance in the...
View ArticleKochcare vs. Obamacare: Finally, Finally, Obama Comes Out Swinging
Mr. Obama also singled out sponsors of a “cynical ad campaign” discouraging Americans from signing up for the new health care program by arguing that it would effectively put the government into the...
View ArticleJohn Boehner Demands Fairness to Arkansan Butch Matthews and His Wife, and...
WASHINGTON — House Republicans emerged from a closed-door meeting on Friday with no new strategy to end the budget standoff and an angry plea to President Obama to negotiate over his health care law....
View ArticleWhat is the POINT of this?
WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Tuesday put forward the outline of a response to a Senate proposal that would end the government shutdown and raise the debt limit into next year, but would also make...
View ArticleHow the Democrats Should Deal With the AnthemBlueCrossCare Issue. Really.
Today, the House of Representatives will take up GOP Rep. Fred Upton’s proposal to ”fix” Obamacare by undermining it, and the vote is being widely cast on a referendum on whether Dems will continue...
View ArticleThe Kosher Butcher Who Was Not a Person Until He Incorporated Himself*
Religious liberty, [Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals] Judge Tymkovich wrote, cannot turn on whether money changes hands. “Would an incorporated kosher butcher really have no claim to challenge a...
View ArticleOh, Stop, Matthew Yglesias. And COUNTLESS Pundits Like you.
That’s an enormous lowering of expectations, and a reminder to liberals about the formidable barriers to further expansion of the welfare state. The public has long been skeptical of the political...
View ArticleThe Antidisestablishmentarianism Theory of Obamacare Illegality. (The ACA has...
A federal judge in the District of Columbia will hear oral arguments on Tuesday in one of several cases brought by states including Indiana and Oklahoma, along with business owners and individual...
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