Bloggers over on EconLog are anticipating some gaming of the individual mandate (Arnold Kling, Bryan Caplan). I agree with them that the individual mandate is
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I was gone last week when twenty states filed yet another lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. But no matter. This case
This is a TIE-U post associated with Nick Bagley’s Health Reform and Its Legal Controversies (Michigan Law 866, Fall 2015). For related posts, see the
In a post I recommend you read in full (it’s not long), Ross Douthat puts a valid question on the table: by what metrics ought we judge
A friend, who’s a teaching assistant for an undergraduate political science class, invited me to chat with his discussion sections a few weeks ago; the
There’s a chart from Jonathan Gruber that’s been making the rounds; most recently Ezra Klein featured it as one of “seven reasons Obamacare isn’t facing
If you haven’t read my prior posts on John Goodman’s book Priceless, catch up using the Priceless tag. This post pertains to Chapter 3. My impression from this chapter is
h/t to ACA Litigation Blog and SCOTUS Blog More than 150 briefs have been filed, the last ones are due next Tuesday. Oral arguments are March 26-28 on
Grace-Marie Turner says Obamacare is fatally flawed. “The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled against the individual mandate in August, accurately described it as
I wanted to actually read the opinion before I posted (radical, I know). We have 3 votes that the Medicaid expansion is constitutional and that
In a thought provoking post on health reform, Tyler Cowen wrote, I am less worried about mandate enforcement than I used to be; Austin Frakt
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