News
CNN Money | Even health reform critics say: Quit repeal talk
The Supreme Court's decision on health reform brought a sigh of relief from small businesses. Whether they love or hate the new rules, they like certainty.
NY Times | Republican Governor of Florida Says State Won’t Expand Medicaid
In another sign of resistance to President Obama’s health care overhaul, Gov. Rick Scott of Florida, a Republican, said Monday that his state would not expand its Medicaid program.
Econ Comments & Analysis
Real Clear Markets | Supreme Court: Let Them Eat Broccoli
When the Supreme Court decided last week that the federal government can ‘tax' you if you don't purchase health insurance, the court narrowed choices for Americans in ways that go well beyond the individual mandate.
WSJ | Henninger: ObamaCare's Lost Tribe: Doctors
Back at the at the dawn of ObamaCare in June 2009, speaking to the American Medical Association's annual meeting, President Obama said: "No matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period."
Blogs
AEI | Yes, there is a free-market alternative to Obamacare
Government — through the tax code, regulatory code, and social insurance programs — has sabotaged market forces that, if allowed to work, would create a healthcare system with more choice, coverage, quality, value, and efficiency.
The Volokh Conspiracy | What Did the Court “Hold” About the Commerce Clause and Medicaid?
So what happens when votes supporting a proposition of law are supplied by dissents?
CATO | HHS Offers to Pay Six Years of Operating Costs for Some States’ ObamaCare Exchanges
ObamaCare gives HHS the authority to make unlimited grants to help states create Exchanges. But that authority expires on December 31, 2014. HHS just issued an announcement that they will issue grants right up to midnight on December 31—and that some of those grants will be so big that they will last for five years
Mercatus | Blahous On the Fiscal Impact of the Health Care Ruling
“The Supreme Court’s action of striking down only the requirement that the states expand Medicaid may mean that the health law will do even more fiscal damage than before."
AEI | It’s already too late. Why Obamacare isn’t going to happen the way Obama thinks it is
Repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act will be a tough task in 2013, even if Republicans take control of the White House and Congress. But implementing the ACA is hardly a walk in the park, as AEI’s Joe Antos notes
National Review | The Government We Deserve: Health-Care Edition
I am not a legal scholar so I cannot comment on the legal impact of yesterday’s health care ruling. However, I am having a hard time seeing this as a victory for federalism like many others around me.
