Obamacare

For about a century, politicians tried and failed to create a program offering universal access to health care in America. With the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, it finally happened. But while the bill was widely nicknamed Obamacare, it wouldn’t have gotten done without the Speaker…

Ten years after Obamacare was signed into law, the “Affordable Care Act” has turned out to be anything but affordable for millions of hard-working Americans. Premiums have skyrocketed, and more than 25 million of our fellow citizens, many of whom are self-employed, earn too much ($50K per year or more)…

Byron York, Washington Examiner March 3, 2020 Yes, Democrats are divided over Bernie Sanders' revolution versus Joe Biden's restoration of status quo Obama. Yes, they are divided over what that means in terms of policy, like Sanders' Medicare For All versus Biden's tweaked Obamacare.Read Full Article »Read More

David Catron, The American Spectator March 4, 2020 The Supreme Court has agreed to hear another constitutional challenge to Obamacare. The court's latest rendezvous with the Affordable Care Act became all but inevitable in late 2018 when U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor ruled, in Texas v. United States,...Read Full Article…

Programming note: Now that I’m back home and at work from last week’s vacation in Palm Springs, California (photos forthcoming someday soon on this blog’s Twitter feed), tomorrow morning I will present the first of three Pa. Superior Court oral arguments this month, including an en banc oral argument a…

Democrats, who consider health care a winning issue and worry about possible changes in the composition of the Supreme Court, had urged the justices to act quickly even though lower courts had not issued definitive rulings. They wanted to focus political attention on the health law’s most popular provisions —…

By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a politically explosive case on whether Obamacare is lawful, taking up a bid by 20 Democratic-led states including California and New York to preserve the landmark healthcare law. The impetus for the Supreme Court case…

This morning, the Supreme Court granted California's petition (19-840), as well as Texas's cross-petition (19-1019).However, the Court did not grant the House of Representative's petition (19-841).Why? Bethune-Hill v. Virginia State Board of Elections killed legislative standing–especially where only a single House brings the suit. There were not even four votes to…

KIRKLAND, Wash. – Four more people have died from the new coronavirus in Washington state. Public health officials said Monday that the latest deaths bring the total to six in the state and in the United States. Public Health – Seattle & King County announced that three more people had…

Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to once again review former president Barack Obama's signature health care law, the target of repeated political and legal challenges over the past decade.The top court, which had upheld the law in 2012 and 2015, will examine a suit brought…