July 1, 2012
Conservatives Waste No Time Advertising Health Care Individual Mandate As A Tax
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June 28, 2012
Republican Reaction To Obamacare Supreme Court Ruling Is Way Over-The-Top
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June 28, 2012
Health Care Individual Mandate Upheld, Confidence In The Supreme Court Restored
Well, today at least.
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June 24, 2012
The Naiveté Of Advocating A Free Market Health Care System
In case you didn’t notice, the current health care system in the United States is already a free market system. There are winners and losers. There are some people who can afford to participate and others who get left behind. This is how any market works, and this is how our current health care system (which isn’t really a system at all) is working, or should I say, is not working.
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April 2, 2012
Supreme Court Rules 5-4 That Officials Can Strip-Search For Any Offense
Welcome to the police state where paranoid conservatives are running the show. On Monday the Supreme Court ruled that officials can strip-search people arrested without regard to the context or severity of the offense. It was yet another 5-4 vote along ideological lines with the conservative justices ruling that courts should not second-guess law enforcement officials.
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April 1, 2012
Does The ‘Individual Mandate’ Argument Boil Down To Semantics?
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March 30, 2012
Really? A Supreme Court Justice Compared Broccoli And Health Care?
When the Supreme Court strikes down the individual mandate and possibly the entire Affordable Care Act with a 5-4 decision, you can be sure Republicans will be mum on the topic of judicial activism. See, judicial activism only works in one direction.
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March 28, 2012
Can Affordable Care Act Survive Without Individual Mandate?
Today is the third and last day of oral arguments over the health care reform law. The focus this morning was whether parts of the health care law could survive if the individual mandate is ruled unconsitutional. Several justices seemed to think that the entire law did not need to be struck down in that event.
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March 27, 2012
Supreme Court Justices Unconvinced ‘Individual Mandate’ Is Constitutional
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March 26, 2012
Supreme Court Justices: Health Care ‘Individual Mandate’ Is Not A Tax
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