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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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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 30, 2011 18 Comments

Obama does bear responsibility for the high, and now likely perpetual, unemployment rates, the skyrocketing budget deficits, and the rapid rise in our national debt in the past two years.  Domestically, the obsession with passing Obamacare and expanding government had a direct cause and effect...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 22, 2011 4 Comments

Mike Stopa was a candidate for Congress in the Republican primary in Massachusetts, and a focus of some posts here, including about his plan on how to dismantle Obamacare based on the experience in Massachusetts.Now Mike has written a column for The Boston Globe sure...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 20, 2011 5 Comments

Obamacare was "historic."  Do a Google News search, and there are hundreds if not thousands of references to the "historic" nature of the legislation.But do a similar search for the House vote repealing this historic legislation, and the term "historic" is used only to describe the legislation,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 17, 2011 7 Comments

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 13, 2011 15 Comments

As I posted yesterday, I thought Obama gave a good speech at the Tucson memorial.  The mainstream media, which has been seeking a way to redeem Obama's presidency, is portraying the speech as turning point in which Obama brought us all together, in contrast to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 10, 2011 18 Comments

Here we go, from Democratic House Rep. Chellie Pingree of Maine, writing at HuffPo (emphasis mine), who claims that the Obamacare repeal bill must be renamed in the wake for the Gabrielle Giffords shooting:As I write this, the motivation behind the shooting of my friend Gabby...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 07, 2011 6 Comments

These numbers from NYC on the abortion rate are shocking in a world where shocking has ceased to have much meaning.  As summarized by CBS News:"The city health department last month released statistics that showed 39 percent of pregnancies ended with induced termination in 2009."This equates to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 04, 2011 3 Comments

At least one Democrat, and possibly several, are expected to vote in favor of the House bill to repeal Obamacare.So will the media refer to the repeal bill as "bipartisan"?  Or does that description only apply when a handful of Republicans break ranks to join with Democrats?--------------------------------------------Follow...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 03, 2011 10 Comments

The Democratic leadership in the Senate has told Republicans in the House not to bother with repeal of Obamacare, any repeal bill will not get past the Senate.That's old news, and certainly no reason not to pass legislation in the House.There are several vulnerable Democratic...

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