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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2010 6 Comments

Obamacare will have the unintended consequence of creating a two-tier system which is far more dramatic than the current system.We all know about the coercive nature of the individual and employer mandates under Obamacare. Those mandates, however, merely are mandatory (brilliant, I know).The mandates do...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 12, 2010 8 Comments

Someone, somewhere is stoking the notion of Sheldon Whitehouse for the Supreme Court spot being vacated by John Paul Stevens. From the Providence Journal:Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, the Rhode Island Democrat, has appeared on some early lists of prospects whom President Obama may consider - or...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 12, 2010 4 Comments

The ruling Labour Party in Britain has used its control of the National Health Service to help its campaign for the May 6 general election, via the Times of London:Labour was today caught up in a new row over its use of personal data after...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2010 4 Comments

Wait for it. The next bailout will be for hospitals devastated by cut-backs as a result of Obamacare. In Rhode Island, the prognosis already is not good for the survival of hospitals already struggling financially, which may be pushed over the brink. As...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 02, 2010 11 Comments

Another day, some more agitation by the Obama administration and Agitprop by the mainstream media, this time directed by Obama himself at Rush Limbaugh and other conservative talk radio hosts.This country is boiling over, after over a year of a strategy of crazy, in which...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 30, 2010 12 Comments

The claim by the Joint Committee on Taxation that the health care mandate penalty was not enforceable by the IRS made a lot of news, but that claim made no sense to me.The Senate bill (at p. 336) says that the health care mandate penalty...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 29, 2010 5 Comments

If Repeal were a candidate, she would win in a landslide (emphasis mine):One week after the House of Representatives passed the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats, 54% of the nation's likely voters still favor repealing the new law. The latest...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2010 12 Comments

Numerous companies already have announced enormous financial write-downs related to Obamacare's cutback of subsidies for prescription drug benefit programs for retirees.These subsidies, while characterized by Democrats as "loopholes," actually saved the government money because it cost less to subsidize private drug programs than for the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 25, 2010 15 Comments

Marc Ambinder and Steve Benen have it all figured out. The lawsuits challenging the health care mandate obviously are frivolous because the Complaints filed do not contain any case authority supporting the claims.Gotcha! Those dumb Republican lawyers obviously don't know what they're doing! They have...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 25, 2010 7 Comments

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 25, 2010 9 Comments

The connection between health insurance and death rates is, at best, tenuous.Ruth Marcus, in The Washington Post, pointed out yesterday that studies are not in agreement on the subject, leading Marcus to conclude as to Obamacare: "Gee, I hope this works out."But that has not...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 24, 2010 19 Comments

From a CBS News poll released today, a clear majority of Americans want Republicans to keep fighting Obamacare:All the euphoria and giddiness from the Democrats and nutroots should not deter us from fighting this monstrosity, this abysmal, stunted, grotesque, freakish, ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 24, 2010 6 Comments

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 24, 2010 16 Comments

In my post yesterday regarding the health care mandate, I suggested that if the courts held that the health care mandate were constitutional, then the Congress would have the power to declare weekly Blue Light Mandates.Given the potentially sweeping Congressional power to impose mandates, I...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 23, 2010 27 Comments

The mandate is front and center in the constitutional challenges to Obamacare's requirement that everyone purchase health insurance or suffer penalties.I've been posting about the mandate since last summer, since the mandate for the first time punishes and taxes the failure to engage in economic...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 23, 2010 16 Comments

Some more thoughts on the worst piece of legislation "since the Great Depression," in no particular order:Democrats won the messaging war. Democrats succeeded in portraying the bill as being about "giving" people "health care." Even Republicans used the terminology. In fact, everyone has hospital care...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 22, 2010 36 Comments

Last night was bad. The law passed by the Senate and House really is that horrible.But it's the morning after, and your mourning should be over.The mainstream media and the nutroots will try to demoralize you, and there will be plenty of gloat to go...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 21, 2010 22 Comments

David Frum knows who is to blame for what appears to be an Obamacare victory: Conservatives who refused to negotiate with Democrats even though Frum admits he has no idea if such negotiations would have resulted in a better bill.I do know. The bill which...

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