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...
Monthly Archive: February 2011
Maps
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...
More Mysterious Than an Enigma
Dictatorship does awful things to its enemies, of course. But it’s none too kind to its friends, either.
The Mandate
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...
The End of Discretion, continued
Schoolboy expelled for shooting pellets out of a straw. The relevant law is, of course, a federal one:
The Two Obfuscations of Obamacare
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...
The Importance of Being Insured
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...
History’s Lost, Part I: Stesichorus
Rufus has, for some time now, guiding this little community through “The Canon,” and it seems we’ve finally made it past 400 BCE and Greek tragedy. The danger when speaking of any “canon” is...
Legislating from the bench
Orin Kerr explains the essential problem with the recent District court ruling against the new healthcare law: This might work as a Supreme Court opinion that can disagree with precedent. But Judge Vinson is...
A Utilitarian Framework for Evaluating the Morality of Abortion
by Christopher Carr Jeremy Stangroom is a British author, philosopher, co-founder of The Philosopher’s Magazine Online – one of the premiere philosophy publications on the Internet – and the director of Philosophy Experiments – where users can participate in...
