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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2012 43 Comments

Of course, it takes a publication like Mother Jones to pull this stuff up, but it hasn't received a lot of attention since it was published in October. There's a curious reference to Teddy having to work in Washington in order for Massachusetts to pass Romneycare. It hasn't come up much,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 30, 2012 21 Comments

Here is a video compilation of how Democratic tallking heads justified Obamacare at the time of the vote in the House on the reconciliation bill (h/t CWLsun in Tip Line). It's the same way they will justify it in this election cycle. (Warning: Sound volume uneven) Update: This also is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 30, 2012 49 Comments

The blog Verum Serum claims to have found an audio recording showing that Newt Gingrich supported Obama's federal mandate, in a post titled Gingrich Called for ObamaCare Mandate in May 2009...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2012 44 Comments

Whatever my criticisms of Rick Santorum, we owe him a debt of gratitude for this segment last night, which confirmed that Mitt Romney loves him some Romneycare: As Jeffrey Anderson writes, Romney's defense of Romneycare will be political death in the general election: Romney then replied by issuing...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 26, 2012 44 Comments

I read the analysis below, and then I look at the hyperbolic rhetoric about how Mitt Romney is the most electable and Newt must be destroyed, and I just shake my head in disbelief. Via James Pethokoukis: It’s one thing when Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum say...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 20, 2012 50 Comments

You've been warned before. The devil in Obamacare is not in the 2000 pages, its in the regulations to be promulgated.  For every page, expect several regulations.  It will push up the cost of health insurance and suffocate the private insurance markets as a result. When cost...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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: ...

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...

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...

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,...

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