Should Employers Be Allowed to Drug-Test for Cannabis in Legalized States?
A murky legal footing isn’t good for businesses, and it isn’t good for folks who only want to hold down a decent job without letting their health get the better of them.
Tagged: Health Care Reform
Medicaid and the problems of law enforcement
Medicaid expansion would help with our policing problems: told you so edition
Wage Mastery
Is there any possible way to justify putting a cap on CEO pay? Should we be having this conversation or even be taking it seriously? If your answer is no – that we should...
Ben Smith Doesn’t Understand How Insurance Works
In a post over at BuzzFeed that makes me want to pound my head against my desk, Ben Smith proves that highly visible political pundits can write regularly about health insurance from 2009-2013 and...
Why you should totally get an HSA, but Uncle Sam shouldn’t
First of all, a promise to everyone rolling their eyes that this will be my last post on health care for a while. I had intended to give it a rest after my last...
Increased Health Insurance Competition Doesn’t Do What You Think It Does
As a principled pragmatic, I often reject the ‘Right vs. Left’ or ‘Tyranny vs. Freedom’ debates that political parties and moneyed interests frame for us. I find that our best solutions are usually arrived...
Health is the War of the State
Healthcare is a political football in every Western country to some extent. In countries with extensive government healthcare the debate is about what the government should pay for, in the US it’s about whether...
Is the insurance mandate constitutional? Of course – health care reform wouldn’t work without it!
Seriously. Even if you’re not sympathetic to questions about the insurance mandate’s constitutionality, this is just a deeply silly argument.
Political Trolls: What the GOP Hath Sowed
Scott’s post last week attacking the Republican behavior before, during and after the health care debate generated quite the lively discussion in the comments thread. Scott and many primarily left-of-center commenters argued that the...
Klein vs. Ryan
This discussion/interview between Ezra Klein and Rep. Paul Ryan is the best thing I’ve seen in the health care debate in months. Given Ryan’s position as a GOP point man on health care reform,...
Paul Ryan’s Budget
“If Obama’s efforts to create a viable regulatory framework in which individuals can buy private health insurance (a) pass congress, and (b) turn out to work well and be popular, then you can imagine...
Forget The President, He’s Not That Important (On Domestic Policy)
The interspheres have been aglow with the leaking of a planned spending freeze proposal by the Obama Administration. A run down of various opinions can be found in Scott’s post. Scott writes: This is politics...
Vector, Not Scope
I understand what Jamelle is trying to say in response to E.D. I do. But I think Jamelle is fundamentally misreading the GOP and the nature of what can make something meaningfully “bi-partisan” (much as...
Welcome to the Village
I have seen a lot of pretty good analysis of last night’s elections coming from the “fringes” on both sides, but especially from the far Left. I have also seen a lot of crappy...
Nihilism?
Others here may well disagree, but I would like to associate myself with every word of James Joyner’s response to Andrew Sullivan’s accusation that a Scott Brown win will signal “a nihilist moment, built...
Health Care Reform and the Constitution
A pretty good George Will column on the constitutionality of a health insurance mandate. I’m waiting on our resident legal expert to weigh in with a more informed opinion.
In Praise of Jane Hamsher, et al: Redefining the Art of the Possible
Jane Hamsher has been taking a lot of flak in recent days for coming out against the Senate health care reform bill as well as for suggesting that “both the [progressive opponents] and the...
Taxes: Where Political and Constitutional Expediency Collide
I’ve been out of pocket from the political realm for a week and a half, but President Obama’s claim that a health insurance mandate is not a tax strikes me as marginally good politics...
Worse Than Terrorism?
Rep. Virginia Foxx thinks that the health care bill is “worse than terrorism“:
The Big Picture
I don’t really have anything insightful to add to Hendrik Hertzberg’s most recent post, but this is certainly worth repeating:
