So, the employer mandate is delayed a year. Why not make it two, three, or infinitely more? Years ago, I wrote many posts questioning why
My highly refined radar for policy-relevant facts is pulling in a new signal. OK, I admit, the radar has another name: Sarah Kliff. She reports
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
The breaking news is that the 11th Circuit Court has ruled the individual mandate unconstitutional but that the rest of the ACA is not. This
In the new NBER paper The Labor Market Impact of Employer Health Benefit Mandates: Evidence from San Francisco’s Health Care Security Ordinance, Carrie Colla, William Dow,
The 4th Circuit panel on the ACA litigation has ordered special briefing on the non-constitutional tax issue – if the individual mandate is a tax
Tyler Cowan builds an argument on the presumption that Christian Scientists can opt out of Medicare. The Medicare benefit provides no such thing (at p
From our friends at the GAO, released March 28: Private Health Insurance Coverage: Expert Views on Approaches to Encourage Voluntary Enrollment. The report was requested by
Howard Gleckman sums up the debate over the CLASS provisions in the ACA. Since I’ve covered that before, I’ll not review it here. Then Gleckman
The following appeared as a Kaiser Health News column on 24 February 2011 and is co-authored by Kevin Outterson and Austin Frakt. Two federal judges
I’ve been asked several times and in several ways how and why health reform will play out differently across the states. In part, this has already been
Kevin Outterson and I have teamed up for a Kaiser Health News column. Some claim that, without the mandate, the overhaul will collapse. Opponents certainly
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