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Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 01, 2011 4 Comments

From Glenn Kessler of WaPo:One can certainly raise serious questions about whether the Republican plan is adequately funded and, over time, would shift too much of the financial burden to beneficiaries. One could also question whether the elderly would be eager to navigate different choices...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 27, 2011 6 Comments

Several readers wrote to me asking me to post on this.  It certainly is worth noting, because Elena Kagan's involvement or not in whatever Obamacare appeals make their way to the Supreme Court could make a difference.Justice Kagan did not recuse herself from consideration of Virginia's...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 25, 2011 10 Comments

That's saying a lot.Unlike the children who run the Democratic Party, Clinton recognizes that Medicare and other entitlements must be reformed, and that the Democratic Party is harming the country by making "do nothing" the main focus of Democratic Party campaign strategy:But ABC News was behind the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 25, 2011 11 Comments

Just a quick follow up to my post Bye-Bye Brown.This analysis by Nate Silver of how Republicans may reach a "tipping point" on the Ryan budget as there begins a trickle of defections, and how damaging Scott Brown's Politico op-ed was (emphasis mine): More recently, Senator Scott...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2011 8 Comments

No not Newt. The hype about Dems running ads in 2012 with Newt's criticisms of Paul Ryan is way overblown.It's Ben Nelson, Democrat from Nebraska, who is running for reelection and splitting with his party over the mandate:Don't expect much to be made of Nelson's...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 15, 2011 15 Comments

(Originally posted 5/12/11, but lost in the Big Blogger Blackout of 2011, brought back to life courtesy of the Restore Honor and Sanity (and missing Legal Insurrection posts) Project)Gravitas, what we need is Gravitas. A mind so large it can create a unified theory of everything,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 28, 2011 2 Comments

As if Part 1 were not enough. Via Infowars (h/t @ProfBainbridge): -------------------------------------------- Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube Visit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress! ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 25, 2011 4 Comments

ScotusBlog is reporting that the U.S. Supreme Court, without any dissents noted, has passed on the application of the State of Virginia for expedited review of the case now on appeal to the 4th Circuit.  The District Court in Virginia had ruled the health care mandate...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 13, 2011 11 Comments

You think dealing with insurance companies is hard, at least you have choices, for now. Once government takes over, you get what you get, just like at the airports now. And fighting with an insurance company may land you in court, but fighting with the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 09, 2011 4 Comments

From a recently rediscovered colleague:"Government continues to struggle with the most mundane of tasks, including counting votes. Yet many people want it to take on vastly more sophisticated projects, like running health care."His blog is here.--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit the Legal Insurrection...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 31, 2011 8 Comments

Washington, D.C. is shocked to find that AARP may have had a financial incentive to push Obamacare:"The report also details the Democrats’ health care law’s significant cuts to Medicare Advantage (MA) and how the interplay in the marketplace between MA and Medigap will increase Medigap...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 08, 2011 2 Comments

I appeared yesterday as a guest of Mark Carbonaro of KION 1460 in Monterey, California, to talk about the March 3, 2011 decision of Judge Roger Vinson in Florida granting a stay of his prior health care ruling which had held the health care mandate to be...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 23, 2011 56 Comments

That seems to be the import of the ruling by federal Judge Gladys Kessler in upholding the Obamacare mandate in a suit brought by a group of private plaintiffs in Mead v. Holder (pg. 45, emphasis mine):As previous Commerce Clause cases have all involved physical...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 19, 2011 17 Comments

We have seen the future of the health care system, and it is the doctors on the streets of Madison, Wisconsin, handing out free sick notes to public sector union members so they can fraudulently collect their pay for missing work.Boy, oh boy, I can't...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 14, 2011 20 Comments

Jennifer Rubin makes the argument that Mitt Romney was the big loser at CPAC because Romney failed to address Romneycare, contributing to the narrative that Romney has no politically good explanation.  According to Rubin, a simple mea culpa would help tremendously:Romney has a huge problem...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 03, 2011 8 Comments

A column by James Taranto, 'Death Panels' Revisited (via Instapundit) points out:Obama ran for office on opposition to the individual mandate, then made it the centerpiece of his signature legislative initiative. Perhaps this should have been "lie of the year." At PolitiFact.com, it wasn't even a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 01, 2011 16 Comments

Everyone is all excited because some South Dakota legislators have proposed a mandate requiring each citizen to own a gun (h/t reader Brian):Five South Dakota lawmakers have introduced legislation that would require any adult 21 or older to buy a firearm “sufficient to provide for their...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 01, 2011 3 Comments

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