WH: Individual mandate now a tax.
Democrats, administration apologists hardest hit. (H/T: Hot Air Headlines) If you are surprised at this… [deep breath] well. You should not be. When Congress required most Americans to obtain health...
View ArticleMore judicial Obamacare salvoes this week.
There are two cases in Florida and Virginia expected to be decided this week over the constitutionality of Obamacare. The underlying issue is whether the US Constitution gives Congress the right to...
View Article#rsrh Looking over lexington_concord’s…
…quick analysis of the Virginia Obamacare court decision (short version: individual mandate unconstitutional, severable from the rest of Obamacare, no injunction on Obamacare as a whole until the...
View Article#rsrh Wanna see how to write an article on a constitutional challenge…
…to Obamacare’s individual mandate provision, without ever once explaining why there’s a constitutional challenge to the individual mandate? Here you go. In the interests of educating the populace –...
View ArticleObama’s first lose-lose Obamacare-related argument today.
The first round of the US Supreme Court’s attempts to settle the problem that is Obamacare takes place today, and from the Obama administration’s purely partisan (and particularly puerile) perspective,...
View Article#rsrh Wall Street: All or nothing on Obamacare?
I’ll take ‘Nothing,’ thanks. That’s Ed Morrissey’s opinion, based on how health care stocks are going: and that sounds about right to me, too. I’ll also note that if our self-appointed elites think...
View Article#rsrh The Health Tax, Reconciliation, and the Nightmare Scenario.
Well, that was exciting, no? Short version, from what I can tell: the court decided that Obamacare’s individual mandate is not permitted under the Commerce Clause, but is permitted in terms of being a...
View ArticleRepeat after me: THE OBAMACARE ‘MANDATE’ WAS ACTUALLY A TAX.
And that affects profoundly the question of how to get rid of it. Mickey Kaus is correct, and Ryan Lizza & David Frum are wrong on this: the only reason that Obamacare was not cast down was because...
View ArticleVermont’s $3,800 single person tax.
Hi! Are you a single person who lives in Vermont? If you are, the intersection of those two particular circles of the Venn Diagram of Life means that you probably voted for Obama; and I just wanted...
View ArticleWhy the government cannot social-media the young into signing up for #Obamacare.
This morning, while running errands with kids in tow, I did something that I try not to do (and usually regret doing): I listened to CSPAN radio when they were taking comments. Normally, this is a...
View ArticleThe White House is not delaying the individual mandate, per se.
What it is doing is apparently a little more convoluted: As the law stands now, in order to be covered by March 31, people would actually need to have insurance by March 1. And since it takes up to two...
View ArticleHow #obamacare is messing up MANY Dem 2016 candidates’ lives.
I mean, obviously it’s going to mess up Joe Biden’s life: he’s the Vice President of the administration who turned the roll-out of the single most iconic representation of the progressive/liberal...
View ArticleSo. @barackobama took away your plan, but now won’t fine you for not having one.
Big of him. And the rest of the Democratic party. And by ‘big of him’ I mean… something unprintable. The Obama administration will not require the millions of Americans who received health-insurance...
View ArticleNew York Post discovers the collapsing #obamacare individual mandate scenario.
(H/T: Hot Air) It’s nice to see this finally making the mainstream press. [The Obamacare tax] tax will generally be far lower than ObamaCare premiums. That’s the clear conclusion of a new study by the...
View ArticleDueling narratives on individual mandate tax enforcement. #obamacare
Shot (December 2013): Despite his administration’s quiet move overnight to ease the individual mandate for some Americans, President Obama said today the requirement will “absolutely” be enforced...
View ArticleDon’t Ask, Don’t Tell comes to #Obamacare.
Obamacare opponents have a problem these days: to wit, the Obama administration keeps making it harder and harder to successfully describe what Obamacare currently is. Case in point: one of the more...
View ArticleObama administration quietly doing back-channel evisceration of Obamacare’s...
Point (July 2013): President Obama on Tuesday threatened to veto a pair of Republican bills in the House which would delay the employer and individual mandates for one year in the Obama health reform...
View ArticleUninsured choosing to pay Obamacare tax, instead of getting much more...
I told you so. I told you so. I told you so. I TOLD YOU SO. Yahoo News: Marsha Danley, 56, was among those who earned too much to qualify for a subsidy. It’s been more than a decade since Danley last...
View ArticleAmerican poor does math, realizes that Obamacare tax is still cheaper than...
From the I told you so section of the news comes a report that the Obama administration is having trouble convincing people to buy insurance, or pay a fine – despite the fact that they’ve extended the...
View ArticleWH: Individual mandate now a tax.
Democrats, administration apologists hardest hit. (H/T: Hot Air Headlines) If you are surprised at this… [deep breath] well. You should not be. When Congress required most Americans to obtain health...
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