The Mandate Double-Bind
Several commenters, led by the indefatigable Boonton, continue to insist that the mandate is best understood as a penalty that can be paid to opt out the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance requirement. I...
Several commenters, led by the indefatigable Boonton, continue to insist that the mandate is best understood as a penalty that can be paid to opt out the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance requirement. I...
Some people see this picture and say: Hey, look! Democracy is backsliding. We should do something. I see this picture and think: We’ve reached a stable equilibrium. Europe, countries settled by Europeans, and countries...
Dictatorship does awful things to its enemies, of course. But it’s none too kind to its friends, either.
Notably absent from Erik’s defense of the Affordable Care Act is a discussion of the bill’s Constitutionality or the wisdom of compelling everyone to purchase private insurance plans. I find this mildly astonishing. Have...
Schoolboy expelled for shooting pellets out of a straw. The relevant law is, of course, a federal one:
Obamacare’s defenders have obscured two crucial distinctions, and the end result is an unlimited federal power to command the economy. I don’t think they intended to produce this unlimited power, but they have done...
Freddie deBoer writes: Personally, I think denying people adequate health care coverage because of their economic condition or employment status is a practical and ethical failure equal to Jim Crow or similar regimes of...