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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Health Care

News                                                                                                                             
Market Watch | Justices consider scuttling health-care law
Supreme Court justices finished debate Wednesday afternoon on whether to scuttle the Affordable Care Act entirely or keep parts of the legislation, should they decide that requiring individuals to buy insurance is unconstitutional.
Bloomberg | Medicare Budget Debate Comes Down to Who Does Trimming
Both political parties are proposing to cut the $500 billion-a-year health-care program for the elderly. They disagree as to how.
CNN Money | Family health care costs to exceed $20,000 this year
Three days of Supreme Court arguments have left the fate of the 2010 health care reform law uncertain. What is certain, however, is that health care costs are continuing to eat away at consumers' budgets.

Econ Comments & Analysis                                                                                            
WSJ | The ObamaCare Reckoning
After the third and final day of Supreme Court scrutiny of the Affordable Care Act, the bravado of the legal establishment has turned to uncertainty and in some cases outright panic.
Real Clear Markets | The Economic Costs of Obamacare
The nine justices consider only legal arguments. But what are the economic costs of the new law? Below, I list ten separate costs.

Blogs                                                                                                                             
Heritage Foundation | Seven of Obamacare’s Biggest Failures from the Last Two Years
As detailed in Heritage’s “The Obamacare Two-Year Checkup: More Reasons for Repeal,” the law is already proving ineffective in some cases and harmful in others. Here are some of the biggest failures of Obamacare highlighted by the paper