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From Adversaries to Partners	24.8.2010	American Prospect
The states came out as winners in the Affordable Care Act, though some don't seem to realize it.
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Democrats Told To Stop Campaigning On Obamacare	20.8.2010	Red State
The Politico headline is actually New Dem message: ‘Improve’ health care, don’t talk cost , but that is not wholly what is going on. What is going on is a recognition from the Democrats that after a year of trying to sell Obamacare as a panacea of right thinking and improvement, the voters headed to the polls in November disagree and are angry. Consequently, the Politico notes that Democrats are abandoning all pretenses of selling Obamacare to the public and have cut and run back to “if you don’t replace us with the Republicans, we promise we will improve it.” The confidential presentation, available in full here and provided to POLITICO by a source on the call, suggests that Democrats are acknowledging ...
Severability and Obamacare	17.8.2010	NewsTrust Yahoo Pipes Feed
Several state legislators have reached out to me recently with questions about the nature of severability and Obamacare . Since some Redstaters seem to have questions as well , I thought I’d explain a bit about what this means. Most laws of large size and scope have something called a “severability clause” attached to them. Essentially, this means that if one part of a piece of large legislation is ruled unconstitutional by a court, that unconstitutional portion is “severed” from the rest of the bill — the ruling doesn’t stop the rest of the law from being enforced. The trouble for Obamacare is that it doesn’t have a severability clause . If you’re an opponent of Obamacare, this all sounds ...
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The Next Health-Reform Campaign	17.8.2010	American Prospect
Supporters of reform knew they had to battle to get it passed. Now they need to wage another campaign to implement it.
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What Social Security Can Teach Us About the Future of Health Care	13.8.2010	Truthout - All Articles
Americans will learn to love health care reform, just as they did Social Security, if it’s made to work for all of them. At the heart of the right-wing attack on the new health care law’s individual mandate is the fact that law has the potential to become like Social Security, a popular entitlement that is an integral part of the American social fabric. Whether that promise is realized depends on no small measure on whether Congress will make improvements over time in the health care law to assure that health coverage is affordable. read more
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Center for American Progress Attacks Howard Dean	7.8.2010	NewsTrust Yahoo Pipes Feed
In the latest sign Bizarro World is the new normal, Center for American Progress Policy Analyst Ian Millhiser took to Think Progress to attack Dr. Howard Dean. The slam on Governor Dean came up during a discussion on Proposition C, a ballot initiative in the battleground state of Missouri against the individual mandate that just passed with over 70% of the vote. Here's how Millhiser quotes Dr. Dean: [T]he truth is the mandate"s not essential to the plan anyway. It never was essential to the plan. They did it in Massachusetts and had a mandate, but we have universal health care for kids in my state without a mandate. … I made this prediction before and I"m going to make it again: by the time this thing goes into effect in ...
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Howard Dean: Individual mandate will disappear	7.8.2010	Raw Story
The individual mandate requiring people to buy health insurance will disappear before health care reform is fully implemented in 2014, Howard Dean said Friday. The former Democratic Party chairman and vocal champion of health care reform told MSNBC that "by the time this thing goes into effect in 2014, I think the mandate will be [...]
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States defend suit challenging Obama health care law	6.8.2010	MSNBC
States defend suit challenging Obama health care law
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Is healthcare reform ailing?	6.8.2010	LA Times: Opinion
Is healthcare reform ailing?
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The conservative effort to undermine health-care reform	5.8.2010	Ezra Klein
I'm really not sure why conservatives are so excited that a Missouri anti-individual mandate ballot initiative passed in an election composed of two-thirds Republican primary voters. I don't even understand why conservatives would be excited if it passed during a normal election. For one thing, states can't invalidate federal laws. If a Republican Congress privatized Social Security and Vermont didn't like it, a ballot initiative wouldn't invalidate the law. If Paul Ryan passed his legislation to turn Medicaid into a program of vouchers and private insurance options, Massachusetts couldn't overturn it. The federal government has long resisted letting states decide which federal laws to follow and which to avoid. It will continue to resist. ...
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Seventy One Percent of Missouri Voters Agree With Candidate Obama	5.8.2010	NewsTrust Yahoo Pipes Feed
On Tuesday, Missouri voters went to the polls. Among other things, the voters decided on Proposition C, a statute exempting Missouri from the individual mandate from Obamacare. By an overwhelming percentage , voters rejected Obamacare and passed Prop C (71.1 to 28.9). This ardent rejection of the individual mandate puts Missouri voters on par with then-Candidate Obama who, during the 2008 primary, attacked Sen Hillary Clinton’s health care plan because it contained an individual mandate. For those of you who don’t remember, here’s video of President Obama sounding much like his opposition just a few short months later. Gee, if only President Obama would have listened to Candidate Obama he wouldn’t have had to face ...
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The Paul Ryan Solution to the Individual Mandate Dilemma	5.8.2010	The Atlantic - Matthew Ygblesias
With the moral and legal legitimacy of an “individual mandate” to purchase health insurance continuing to be the subject of controversy, it’s worth observing that conservative hero Paul Ryan lights the path to reformulating the exact same policy in a manner that seems to pass the right’s ideological litmus test. After all, once Ryan abolishes [...]
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GOP Kills Health Care for 9/11 Workers, Rails at "Ground Zero Mosque"	4.8.2010	Truthout - All Articles
Last Thursday, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) launched into a righteous tirade against the GOP's attempts to derail a health care package for 9/11 first responders. His House floor antics became an instant viral video classic. Weiner and the House Dems were trying to pass a $7 billion health care assistance package for first responders, cleanup workers and others injured at Ground Zero in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, many of whom developed chronic and poorly-understood health problems as a result of their service. read more
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Cornyn Attacks Activist Judges, Then Attacks Kagan As Insufficently Activist	4.8.2010	Think Progres
In a floor speech explaining his opposition to Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) attacked her for refusing the endorse the frivolous argument that unelected judges should strike down the health care law enacted by elected representatives: I was also troubled by a couple of other areas . . . One has to [...]
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Today in Washington - August 3, 2004	3.8.2010	Red State
Anti gun activist Elena Kagan’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court hits the Senate floor today. Ironically, this is the same day that the Washington Post reports that a federal judge in Virginia refused to dismiss a challenge to ObamaCare’s mandates. This case is going to the U.S. Supreme Court, yet many Senators are not willing to put up a real fight before this left wing extremist is provided a lifetime appointment to the High Court. From the WP: A federal judge refused Monday to dismiss a Virginia lawsuit challenging the nation’s sweeping new health-care law, indicating the law represents a novel extension of Congress’s constitutional authority that should be tested in court and handing the law’s foes an ...
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BREAKING: Federal Judge Allows Virginia's Constitutional Challenge to Affordable Care Act	3.8.2010	Crooks Liars
In a somewhat predictable but still annoying move, U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson refused to dismiss Attorney General Ken Cucinelli's lawsuit seeking to challenge the constitutional grounds for the Affordable Care Act. The key language in the 32-page ruling (PDF) is this: While this case raises a host of complex constitutional issues, all seem to distill to the single question of whether or not Congress has the power to regulate -- and tax -- a citizen's decision not to participate in interstate commerce. Neither the U.S. Supreme Court nor any circuit court of appeals has squarely addresses this issue. No reported case from any federal appellate court has extended the Commerce Clause or Tax Clause to include the regulation of a person's ...
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Judge Rules Virginia Can Sue Over Health Care Law	2.8.2010	NYT: Home Page
A federal judge has refused to block the challenge to the law by Virginia, one of 21 states bringing similar suits.
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Judge Preserves Constitutional Challenge to Individual Mandate	2.8.2010	NewsTrust Yahoo Pipes Feed
Judge Preserves Constitutional Challenge to Individual Mandate
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OKAY, I LINKED THIS STEPHEN GREEN COLUMN EARLIER, but this bit is worth quoting on its own: Candi…	24.7.2010	Instapundit
OKAY, I LINKED THIS STEPHEN GREEN COLUMN EARLIER, but this bit is worth quoting on its own: Candidate Barack Obama ran as a moderate. He promised a “net spending cut.” Health reform was not, we were assured, intended to take over the insurance industry or feature an individual mandate. Taxes would go down for anyone making [...]
The Original Individual Mandate, Circa 1792	21.7.2010	The Health Care Blog
By BRADLEY LATINO Regardless of one’s opinion on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s constitutionality, most commentators-and no less an authority than the Congressional Budget Office)-agree (or concede, as the case may be) that Congress has never required Americans...
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