This excellent piece cuts through the backroom-deliberation fog to explain why the debate over a public option and abortion coverage are sideshows: The real killers in health-care reform are guaranteed issue, the individual mandate, and the government-overseen exchange—all of which will make insurance more expensive while [...]
Gov. Dean, as we [...]
First, The New York Times has reported that liberal Democratic senators, in return for their acquiescence in dropping a government-run insurance option, are pushing [...]
Since the story broke about the Kaine Administration’s under-the-radar attempt to provide health insurance benefits to the “domestic partners” of state employees, not only has the Kaine Administration stuck with the crazy idea, but the homosexual lobby has gone to battle in support of it and think they can [...]
A few hours ago, Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Ben Nelson (D-NE) filed an amendment to health care reform legislation that "would bar any federally subsidized insurance plan from covering elective abortions." If adopted, the Hatch/Nelson amendment could very well represent the most extreme new anti-choice federal law [...] The Kaine Administration’s attempt to sneak taxpayer-funded health benefits for the same-sex partners has broken from the blogosphere to the mainstream media today with a pair of articles in the Hampton Roads Pilot and the Northern Virginia Daily today, and no doubt it’s going to spread from there. [...]
I often hear that mandating Health Insurance is no different than mandating Auto Insurance. This is absolutely incorrect, and there is a BIG difference.
Virginia only requires that you purchase Liability Coverage which protects someone else that you harm, when an accident is your fault. The state does not care if [...]
Is a federal mandate to purchase health insurance Constitutional? Ruth Marcus says it is.
Marcus’ argument rests on two powers given to Congress: the power to tax, and the power to regulate interstate commerce. Looking first at the Commerce Clause, which has been stretched beyond all recognition, she relies on [...]
File this one in the "striking but not at all surprising" category.
