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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Health Care

News                                                                                                                             
National Journal | Supreme Court Hearings Didn't Help Obama's Case, Poll Finds
Though a majority of Americans weren't swayed either way by the Supreme Court's hearings on the health care reform law, the hearings did negatively affect public perception of both the law and the Court, according to a new Pew Center survey.

Econ Comments & Analysis                                                                                            
WSJ | Paul Ryan's Hunger Games
If there's a Laffer Curve for Presidential invective—some point at which dishonest political abuse yields diminishing returns—the White House political team must not think their boss has hit it. Even in this hyperpartisan age, President Obama's speech to the Associated Press yesterday was a parody of the form.
Politico | Being uninsured is a mandate, too
A “health care mandate,” it seems, is in the eye of the beholder.