Category Archives: Healthcare

Politico Offers 5 Ways To Kill Obamacare Without Repeal

Romney has said that “What the Court did not do on its last day in session, I will do on my first day if elected President of the United States. And that is I will act to repeal Obamacare.” Obviously, that doesn’t mean he will abolish it by executive order, as many liberals, including the […]

Mitch McConnell Says That Covering 30 Million People Isn’t The Point

I’ll admit, McConnell didn’t do a really good job of explaining the Republican position on Repeal and Replace, but, he did have a good point, which Obama cheerleader Greg Sargent misses Mitch McConnell’s appearance today on Fox News Sunday was remarkably revealing — it showed as clearly as you could want that the Supreme Court […]

States In No Hurry To Implement Health Insurance Exchanges

Most states have been lollygagging on creating the health insurance exchanges, ie, government sponsored insurance plans that include government mandates on coverage offered through governmentally approved insurance companies that everyone and every company must move to if they make any changes to their existing plans, and plan on continued lollygagging (WRAL) North Carolina lawmakers said […]

SCOTUS Finds Mandate Constitutional As A Tax

It looks like the Mandate was shot down as the Commerce Clause applies, but was upheld as a tax. It seems that the court may have punted, 5-4 with John Roberts joining the liberals, the decision down the road to 2014 when the Mandate goes into effect (CNN) Question: Can the court decide the constitutionality […]

Romney: Obamacare Is A “Moral Failure”

Mitt doesn’t hold back (MSNBC) Mitt Romney reserved some of his harshest criticism of President Barack Obama’s health care reform law for the eve of the Supreme Court ruling that will decide its fate, labeling the law as “moral failure” by a president who chose to focus on healthcare, rather than jobs, at a time […]

It’s Mandate-maggedon: Obama Prepares 3 Speeches

Today is the day we should learn the fate of Obamacare. Will the mandate be upheld or go down? If it goes down, will the Court rule that there is no severability and tank the entire law? Will they tank other parts of the law? We should find out about 10am. In the meantime, Obama […]

As We Await Mandatemageddon, ObamaCare Still Pretty Darned Unpopular

But, says this poll, so is the current US health system. Must have really killed Obama cheerleader Chris Cillizza to write this (Washington Post) A majority of Americans view both the United States’ current health care system and the changes enacted in President Obama’s health care bill in an unfavorable light — a one-two punch […]

E.J. Dionne Wonders If We’ll Miss Obamacare If SCOTUS Kills It

Does anyone think Obamacare supporters are getting a bit nervous over the coming announcement as to how the Supreme Court rules on Obamacare? Here’s EJ Dionne’s take Any day now, the U.S. Supreme Court may make possible something that has yet to happen: an honest and complete discussion of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care […]

NY Times: Democrats Thought Mandate Was Constitutional Because They Said It Was Constitutional

Things are getting a little tense for Democrats and the far left Democrat voters as they see the good possibility that the Obamacare health insurance mandate will be shot down this week by the Supreme Court. There is even the possibility that the whole thing will be shot down because the wholly Democrat legislation did […]

Betting Markets Predict Obamacare Mandate Is Toast

Here’s some good news for a Saturday afternoon (ABC News) From New York to London, traders on the political stock market Intrade are buying stock to predict how the court will rule. And if the market is any indication, the decision is not going to be pretty for the president. There is a 75 percent […]

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