Obamacare

It has largely gone unnoticed thanks to the impeachment news. But, on Wednesday, a closely divided US Court of Appeals for the Firth Circuit voted against en banc review of the December panel decision in the Obamacare severability case. The court voted against en banc reconsideration by a closely divided…

Assume you’re the leader of a nation that wants to strike another country—and that you want to do so without running the risk of devastating military revenge against your own. You’re in luck: Thanks to globalization and ever-increasing digitalization, you can hurt your rival by, say, launching multiple deniable cyberattacks…

“In Supreme Court Abortion Case, Louisiana Goes on the Offensive; State argues that clinics shouldn’t be allowed to sue on women’s behalf in an approach that could change abortion litigation”: Jacob Gershman of The Wall Street Journal has this report. “Emotional debate on Colorado death penalty repeal culminates in historic…

The Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump is expected on Friday to vote on the pivotal question of whether to allow additional witnesses and documents as evidence. And with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnells recent comments to his Republican…

WASHINGTON -- An annual congressional report says the U.S. budget deficit is likely to burst through the symbolic $1 trillion barrier this year despite a healthy economy. Tuesday's Congressional Budget Office report follows a burst of new spending last ye…

“Republican AGs would step up and fight,” West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey told POLITICO. Nearly two dozen Republican AGs also rallied to Donald Trump's defense this week, hoping to hoist the spotlight for a moment while urging the Senate to reject the articles of impeachment against the president as…

Five other states Illinois, Maine, New York, Oregon and Washington have similar laws on the books. But HHS is, for now, only singling out California. California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Xavier Becerra did not immediately respond. The move is i…

Health care stocks, which have been volatile in the run-up to the 2020 elections, are worth consideration even in light of uncertainty about a single-payer system, an investor told Yahoo Finance.Ben Phillips, chief investment officer at EventShares, sees value in health care — along with other government policy-sensitive sectors like…

Health care is high on the list of voter concerns for 2020, as last week’s Democratic candidate debate made clear once again. It’s no mystery why. About 28 million Americans don’t have health insurance, while tens of millions with coverage still struggle to pay their medical bills.  Things would be…

Twenty years ago today, Boing Boing became a blog. Mark Frauenfelder's first post linked to Street Tech, a now-dormant gadget blog. Now there are 160,000 more posts just like it and the impossible task of summarizing the best of them in yet another. Founded …