It’s almost impossible to find a politician these days who isn’t very concerned about the deficit. And it has become clear that the deficit problem is largely a health care spending problem. Given the political difficulty of reducing Medicare spending… Read More ›
As we wait for the Supreme Court to rule on the health reform law’s mandate that all US individuals purchase health insurance, it’s a good time to turn our attention to other core elements of reform that will be debated… Read More ›
While all eyes were on the US Supreme Court last week during its historic 3-day debate on the Affordable Care Act, a new front in the ongoing partisan battle over health care was taking shape this week following the passage… Read More ›
This week’s historic hearings at the US Supreme Court were political as much as they were constitutional. The justices borrowed the Republican framing of health care reform as one of individual freedom rather than the public’s health. However, high-quality, affordable… Read More ›
The question of whether the Affordable Care Act (ACA) can proceed without the mandate that all US individuals purchase health insurance or pay a penalty if they don’t is just one of several questions the Supreme Court will have to… Read More ›
This week, we were treated to the spectacle of the US Supreme Court debating economics. They called it a discussion about the Affordable Care Act (ACA), but it was more economic than legal. They spent an enormous amount of time… Read More ›
“The revolution will not be televised,” poet-musician Gil Scott Heron famously said, and apparently neither will the US Supreme Court case reviewing whether the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is constitutional. About a week before the historic proceedings got under way… Read More ›
