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How disastrous was Santorum’s endorsement of Specter? Can you say ‘Obamacare’?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 30, 2011 37 Comments

Rick Santorum backed Arlen Specter over Pat Toomey in 2004. It was a tough race with Toomey mounting a credible, well-financed challenge. Toomey's candidacy, by his own estimation, was one of the precursors to the Tea Party movement: The "battle for the heart and soul of the Republican Party"...

The problem with socialized medicine is that eventually you run out of other people’s money

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 29, 2011 26 Comments

The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money. The problem with socialized medicine is that eventually you run out of other people's money, too. In Britain, they have run out of other people's money, so the National Health Service has...

Will Ben Nelson run?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 19, 2011 7 Comments

He says he will make a decision over the holidays, and Democrats in Washington desperately want him to run even though he is in a weakened position because of the Cornhusker Kickback. The NRSC has released a web ad which highlights Nelson's problem (h/t HotAir). I...

Ben Nelson, the farewell song

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 08, 2011 7 Comments

Democratic Senator Ben Nelson from Nebraska negotiated the now infamous "Cornhusker Kickback" payoff from Obama for Nelson's vote in favor of Obamacare. The payoff was an embarrassment for the people of Nebraska, as I noted at the time. One Nebraska family care physician wrote an open letter to...

Remember when Jennifer Rubin said Romneycare rendered Romney all but unelectable?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 30, 2011 20 Comments

Mitt Romney appeared last night for an interview with Brett Baier (video below). Too bad Brett didn't ask Romney why Romney refused to appear before the full panel on Center Seat, like the other candidates have done. My biggest reaction is that it's bizarre that Romney refuses to admit he...

Supreme Court to take Obamacare case this term

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 14, 2011 27 Comments

The Supreme Court has just announced that it will take the Obamacare litigation, meaning that a decision will be rendered on the individual mandate, if not the entire law, by the end of June. As reported in USA Today: The Supeme court said today it will hear...

D.C. Court of Appeals upholds Obamacare

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 08, 2011 19 Comments

The opinion isn't on the court website yet, but here's how The Wall Street Journal describes it: A federal appeals court in Washington ruled Tuesday that last year's federal health-care overhaul is constitutional, handing the Obama administration another legal victory ahead of the Supreme Court's likely...

For your evening entertainment

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 27, 2011 10 Comments

From the files, a freak show on the Ed Show, with Anthony Weiner commenting on Alan Grayson: ...

Don’t worry, your centralized medical records are safe

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 24, 2011 9 Comments

Creating a centralized electronic medical record is one of the primary goals of the Obama administration (and Bush before that, although not funded) under the theory that a centralized record will lead to greater efficiencies. Don't worry, your centralized medical records will be safe. Unless, of course, someone working...

Politically, Republicans cannot lose a 2012 Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 29, 2011 23 Comments

The Obama administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the 11th Circuit case which found the Obamacare mandate to be unconstitutional. There is no absolute right to appeal to the Supreme Court in this case; the Court decides which cases it will take. Dahlia...

PA Federal Court Strikes Obamacare Mandate

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 13, 2011 14 Comments

Judge Christopher C. Conner of the U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Pennsylvania has stricken the Obamacare mandatge in a Memorandum and Order issued today (h/t Fuzzy via Gateway Pundit), as reported by Bloomberg: The insurance-buying mandate in President Barack Obama’s health-care reform legislation is...

4th Circuit tosses Virginia Obamacare suit on “standing” grounds

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 08, 2011 13 Comments

The 4th Circuit has dismissed Virginia's Obamacare mandate suit, which Virginia won in the District Court, on the ground that the Attorney General did not have "standing" to sue (meaning that he was not a person legally entitled to sue). I haven't seen the opinion yet,...

“over 66 percent expect that the size of their workforce will either stay the same or decrease over the next year”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 19, 2011 11 Comments

Those are the findings of a survey of CEO's by ChiefExecutive.net (h/t @billhobbs): Unemployment numbers remain consistently high and CEOs are wary of future business conditions. In fact, chief executives are so pessimistic that over 66 percent expect that the size of their workforce will either...

11th Circuit strikes down Obamacare mandate

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 12, 2011 46 Comments

This is the big case involving 26 states. In January, Judge Roger Vinson struck the entire law finding that the mandate could not be severed from the rest of the law. The 11th Circuit ruled that the mandate was unconstitutional, but unlike Judge Vinson, did not throw...

Cornell Study: ObamaCare includes up to $66 billion in unexpected subsidies

Posted by Michael Alan on August 09, 2011 4 Comments

Cornell professor of policy analysis Dr. Richard Burkhauser, along with Sean Lyons and Indiana University's Dr. Kosali Simon, has released a study showing that the ObamaCare legislation provides a significant incentive for employers and their employees to take advantage of the taxpayer subsidized insurance exchange. According to their...

Question of the Day

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2011 17 Comments

Why are they rioting in England, they have free health care?...

Obama throws Democrats’ Mediscare campaign off a cliff

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 12, 2011 8 Comments

Almost the entire Democratic Party theme for the 2012 elections at every level is that evil Republicans want to destroy "Medicare as we know it," whereas Democrats want to save the program by raising taxes on the "rich." As Michael Alan documented here, groups behind the "Mediscare"...

“Yes you can accept free money from the government.”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 02, 2011 2 Comments

Maybe I should start a Gravitas Series, and invite Dr. Rube Goldberg to the opening ceremony.The most brilliant minds in the world devised the housing double dip, and they didn't even know it:Housing's Double Dip: Is the Government to Blame? The S&P; Case-Shiller home price...

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