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Individual Mandate Encounters Pointed Skepticism

June 9, 2011

From The Hill: By Sam Baker and Julian Pecquet – 06/08/11 03:29 PM ET   Judges in the highest-profile challenge to the healthcare reform law appeared skeptical of the federal government’s defense, according to people who attended oral arguments in the case Wednesday. In nearly three hours of questioning, a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S.…

Hypocrisy Alert: The GOP’s Jilted Individual Mandate

June 1, 2011

From The Chicago Tribune: By Noam N. Levey Washington Bureau May 28, 2011 . Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has renounced it. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says he doesn’t believe in it anymore. Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman has brushed off suggestions he even considered it. As the three have discovered, there is hardly…

Hypocrisy Alert: DeMint’s Flip-Flop On Health Care Reform

May 9, 2011

From Talking Points Memo: Former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) and Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC). Brian Beutler | May 6, 2011, 11:41AM Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) has taken Dave Weigel for a spin in South Carolina. In 2007 DeMint endorsed Mitt Romney for President — indeed, served as his campaign co-chair — but reportedly won’t do…

Reagan’s Solicitor General On Mandate’s Constitutionality

February 3, 2011

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UGQIkYEBPo&feature=player_embedded] Former Reagan Solicitor General Charles Fried gave dispassionate testimony on Capitol Hill yesterday, right before Senate Democrats voted down repeal of the Affordable Care Act, articulating why he is “quite sure that the health care mandate is constitutional.”

For Mass., Individual Mandate Makes All The Difference

December 20, 2010

By Ezra Klein Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, December 18, 2010; 3:58 PM Unless someone can drop into Anthony Kennedy’s dreamspace and, “Inception”-style, either figure out what he thinks of the individual mandate or simply tell him what to think of the individual mandate, it’s not worth spending much time speculating on the ultimate legal…

Celebrity Economist Urges Protection Of Medicaid

December 20, 2010

Ben Stein, economist. From The Post & Courier: Stein differs with GOP on care By RENEE DUDLEY [email protected] Saturday, December 18, 2010 Celebrity economist Ben Stein said cuts to Medicaid, including those to take effect in South Carolina in February, are a ‘tremendously, tremendously serious problem.’ Stein, who will be in Charleston next month to…

Guess Who Loves The Individual Mandate, Big Profits?

November 19, 2010

It’s a political pickle, all right. The same health insurance goliaths that secretly bankrolled  anti-Obama campaigns in the midterm elections, while publicly proclaiming cooperation with the White House, now have to persuade their politicians to lay off the individual mandate, no matter what their Tea Party supporters say. From Bloomberg Businessweek: By Drew Armstrong When…

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