Some highlights from today's oral arguments: Allahpundit thinks Sotomayor's argument in favor of severability, heard at the end of the video above, has some merit: The argument for having the Court kill the whole thing is more pragmatic than legal, I think — no one wants to see insurers go out of business because Congress … Continue reading Day Three Reax: Can Obamacare Survive Without The Mandate?
Opinions about Obamacare are holding steady: Blumenthal investigates: The most likely reason general attitudes about the law have not changed is that so few Americans have sense of how the law will affect them. "Two years after passage," the Kaiser analysts write, "the ACA is not yet 'real' for most Americans — six in ten … Continue reading Reality Check
It was an epic night for Chris Christie and his acceptance speech was quite obviously an announcement speech for the presidency. I think he’s a very potent candidate in large part because of his pugnacity, anti-Washington cred, and GOP establishment money. But man was that speech big on self-regard. Almost every sentence was a me, … Continue reading The Best Of The Dish Today
For those who missed it, the full SOTU speech: Cassidy gives Obama high marks: The President wasn’t merely upbeat. He was self-assured, glib, and, at times, bordering on bumptious. “Well, we’ve been warned,” Karl Rove complained on Twitter. “POTUS will spend rest of year campaigning.” … As the President is well aware, his ambition of transcending partisanship has been frustrated. … Continue reading Obama Is Back In Campaign Mode
Sarah Varney covers Mississippi’s experience with Obamacare: “There are wide swaths of Mississippi where the Affordable Care Act is not a reality,” Conner Reeves, who led Obamacare enrollment at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, told me when we met in the state capital of Jackson. Of the nearly 300,000 people who could have gained coverage … Continue reading No Relief For America’s Sickest State
Damon Root believes the lawsuit has legs: That “failure to implement” refers to the White House’s controversial unilateral action delaying implementation of Obamacare’s employer mandate, the provision of the 2010 health care law requiring firms with 50 or more employees to provide qualifying coverage. As Peter Suderman noted in July 2013, the legality of that delay has always … Continue reading How Good A Case Does Boehner Have Against Obama?
The Speaker of the House of Representatives is going to sue Obama over his executive orders: While Boehner has yet to announce the details of the forthcoming lawsuit, House Republicans have strongly opposed numerous unilateral decisions made by the Obama Administration, including halting deportations of immigrants who were brought to the country as children, postponing provisions of … Continue reading Boehner Pulls A Bachmann
Mar 14, 2014 @ 9:28am Seth Masket considers the latest debate roiling the education world: By now, you’ve probably heard of the Common Core State Standards. They are a set of skills expectations for students that have been adopted by 45 states plus the District of Columbia. They require that students be broadly competent in mathematics and literacy and … Continue reading The War Over The Core
Apr 23, 2014 @ 10:36am Earlier this month, Polly Mosendz covered the debate over Hepatitis C drug Sovaldi: [I]nsurers cannot stand this life saving, revolutionary medication. That’s because it runs $1,000 a day and the average patient requires a 12-week treatment of Sovaldi.That’s $84,000 for one cycle. For patients with a strain that is more difficult to … Continue reading The $84,000 Cure
Well, it’s more like a resuscitation of the Book Club, since we had one more than a decade ago now. But the format will be the same. Each month, we’ll pick a book, and Dish readers are invited to read it alongside us. After three weeks, we’ll start debating it, through posts on the Dish and … Continue reading Announcing The Dish Book Club
