Healthcare in the United States
…Affordable Care Act or as Obamacare — into law. Joe Biden, then the vice president, could be overheard whispering “This is a big fucking deal.” And it was. The ACA,…
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Public says Extend the Tax Credits for the ACA
…under the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act (PAYGO). It is more than just cuts to the ACA subsidies. Despite Budget Concerns, Three-Quarters of Public Say Congress Should Extend the Enhanced ACA Tax…
What if ACA Subsidies are Not Extended in AZ?
…15 to 20 million citizens. “How much more will ~430,000 Arizona residents pay if the enhanced ACA subsidies are not extended? (updated),” Charles Gaba at ACA Signups. Arizona has around 423,000…
Justice Scalia’s Super Body (And, no, it has nothing to do with the Constitution’s Free Exercise Clause. Really.)*
…for lawsuits in U.S. federal courts, not for lawsuits in other countries’ courts. Or at least, he later explains, he’s angry, and worried, that if the United States Congress can…
The difference between Social Security/Medicare and Medicaid under the Spending Clause, in light of the ACA opinion
While the Court’s upholding the mandate is deservedly taking front stage in the media coverage, the Court’s decision to strike down a part of the Medicaid expansion may ultimately have…
My early take on the ACA-contraception-mandate-case argument: Alito conflates the Securities Exchange Act with state-law corporate-structure statutes (yikes); Kennedy really, really wants to give corporations the full complement of human constitutional rights; and Scalia really, really needs to limit this ruling to an interpretation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
…right is constitutional or is instead statutory. If the Court says the derivative nature a provision of law that provides a right to “persons” comes from the personal closeness of…
Healthcare Insurance Companies Lose in Court on ACA Risk Corridor Program
Healthcare Insurers Lose in Court Over Risk Corridor Funds I have written a couple of times about Sessions, Upton, Kingston, and Republicans sabotaging the ACA Risk Corridor Program with the…
Corporations are not people and Thomas Hartmann
…person,” these laws (e.g., tax laws, environmental laws, lawsuit procedural laws) do include corporations in the statute’s “definitions” section, in defining the term “person”, in order to make clear that…
Next Challenge to the PPACA?
…different government bodies. Supreme Court: A new lawsuit attacking Obamacare is a serious threat to the law, Vox There in lies the issue, the delegation of authority without detail and…
FCC asks SCOTUS to uphold Constitutionality of rural phone and internet subsidies
…Appeals for the Fifth Circuit abruptly declared it unconstitutional (what a surprise). This is how the Fifth Circuit’s COA works and it is common place there. Historically, the Fifth Circuit…