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The House repeal of the Affordable Care Act, which passed Wednesday evening 245-189, isn’t the first time the landmark legislation has had the appearance of vulnerability. In fact, exactly one year before the repeal vote, Republican Scott Brown was elected to the U.S. Senate, filling the late Ted Kennedy’s seat and …
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s office just announced that the chamber will take up the health care repeal effort next week. A vote on the measure, expected to pass easily but get stonewalled in the Senate, was originally scheduled for Jan. 12. Speaker John Boehner postponed it in the wake of the Tucson shooting. In retrospect and …
Back in October, I included this line in a blog post:
Political pressure and a seemingly paralyzing fear of bad headlines, however, appears to be guiding Administration policy this close to election day.
As if to prove the point, within an hour of publishing this line, I got a call from a White House press person vigorously …
Things are a little slow around TIME’s New York office this week, with some of our staff still stranded elsewhere thanks to the blizzard of 2010. The week between Christmas and New Year’s is also notoriously slow in the news business, with the President out of town and Congress out of session.
All of which makes it a perfect time …
It says something about the success of a misinformation campaign when it’s called out for official recognition two years in a row. Politifact, the independent fact-checking web site associated with the St. Petersburg Times, named “death panels” it’s “Lie of the Year” in 2009. This year’s winner: “government takeover of …
In Pensacola, Fla. today, federal Judge Roger Vinson indicated he sympathizes with those who say the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate violates the Constitution. If Vinson ultimately rules that the requirement that all Americans maintain health insurance coverage is unconstitutional, it would be a second brutal court blow to the …
In the light of day, a few things about yesterday’s health care court decision are coming into focus. The White House clearly expected federal Judge Henry Hudson to rule the individual mandate unconstitutional. The judge telegraphed his intentions in earlier comments and the Administration was ready with talking points about how Hudson’s …
Earlier today, federal Judge Henry Hudson ruled that the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate is unconstitutional. While this is an important victory for opponents of the health reform law, it’s obviously not the end of the road. The Obama Department of Justice will appeal, as opponents of the individual mandate appealed other …
(This post has been updated to include comments from Ken Cuccinelli.)
Casting a shadow of doubt over the future of the Affordable Care Act, a federal judge in Virginia ruled this afternoon that a major tenet of the new health reform violates the Constitution.
The decision, from George W. Bush-appointed Judge Henry Hudson, says that …
Fox News Washington managing editor Bill Sammon is under fire today for instructing his newsroom – during the height of the health care debate – not to use the term “public option.” Here’s the supposed smoking gun: an e-mail obtained by Media Matters:
From: Sammon, Bill
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 8:23 AM
To: 054
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As first reported by Politico, Republican and Democratic Senate leaders are close to reaching a deal that would stave off impending cuts in Medicare reimbursements. To pay for the so-called “doc fix” – a perpetually vexing circumstance in which Medicare reimbursements would fall more than 20% without repeated congressional action – …
In a big win for the Obama Administration, a second Clinton-appointed federal judge ruled today that the Affordable Care Act is constitutional, asserting that the individual mandate falls under federal authority granted by the Commerce Clause. The lawsuit, brought by Liberty University, also argued that the ACA violates the First …
Of all the controversial pieces of the Affordable Care Act, the one that seems ripest for rollback is a new requirement that businesses file tax forms on every purchase over $600. Yet, despite calls for its demise from both sides of the aisle and seemingly every business group in America, this provision lives on, which raises an …
