Obamacare

Republicans have no real plan to establish a new health care system if the courts strike down the Affordable Care Act before the 2020 election. But plenty of them are rooting for its demise anyway even if it means plunging the GOP into a debate that splits th…

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has been declared dead too many times to count, from the torturous process to make it a law in the first place (shoutout to deem and pass) to the HealthCare.gov meltdown when sign-ups began to Sen. John McCains d…

There is an old saying that it is permissible to walk with the devil when crossing a narrow bridge. Welcome, progressives, to the 2020 presidential election. First, lets get one thing out of the way. Yes, Im a Republican. And yes, as someone staunchly oppose…

In the worst-case scenario, the appeals court and the Supreme Court would both use a dubious technicality to take health insurance away from an estimated 20 million people. Whatever happens, its clear that the Trump administration and some supposedly conserv…

As far as I can tell, a vast majority of legal experts consider this argument ridiculous, and so it is. After all, it says that the A.C.A. would be constitutional if Congress had explicitly eliminated the mandate, as opposed to simply making it irrelevant; th…

What happened Shares of Cigna(NYSE:CI) were sailing 12.4% higher as of 11:05 a.m. EDT on Thursday. The nice jump came after the Trump administration dropped its plan to eliminate drug rebates from government prescription drug plans. The administration had at…

On Obamacare, 'What Will John Roberts Do?'

Time to Bury Obamacare & Deliver Real Health Care Reform

Tuesday afternoon, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in Texas v. Azar and aggressively interrogated attorneys defending Obamacare's individual mandate. They seemed deeply skeptical that the mandate can survive constitutional muster unles…

The case, Texas v. United States, is the third Republican attempt to destroy Obamacare by judicial fiat. Lawmakers havent been able to entirely undo the law, and the Supreme Court has so far upheld it twice. After Mr. Trump signed in late 2017 the Tax Cuts …