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Obama Says States Can Opt Out of Health Care Plan Three Years Early
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyIn a nod to pressure from state governors, President Obama announced a plan on Monday to allow states to opt out of some aspects of the nation's health care reform law three years earlier than previously mandated. As currently written, the law says states must wait until 2017; the new bill would allow them to begin pursuing alternate plans as early as 2014. As governors across the country have waged battles to trim large deficits -- most publicly of late in Wisconsin -- the move was seen as a concession to those leaders who have criticized the new health care law and questioned its economic ...
Cascading Medicaid Cuts Hurt the Poor and Burden the States
By Lou Cannon - Politics DailyHealth care for the poor is in trouble and so are the states that are charged with providing an increasing share of it. As federal aid to states from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is phased out, most states have been forced to curb Medicaid, the federal-state program that provides health care for the poor and disabled. Despite his strong rhetorical support for Medicaid, President Barack Obama's 2012 budget proposes to reduce the federal share of the program by more than $6 billion. As a national topic of discussion, Medicaid has been shuffled to the back burner by ...
Howard Dean: Health Care Mandate Doomed, Tea Party Uneasy About Diversity
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyHoward Dean -- doctor, former presidential candidate, former Democratic Party chairman and former Vermont governor -- says the new health care law's individual mandate requiring people to buy health insurance is doomed and not necessary for the law to succeed. Dean offered up that unvarnished opinion and others Wednesday at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast, including his views on the upcoming White House staff shake-up and Speaker John Boehner's challenges with a tea party movement that Dean says is having trouble embracing the nation's demographic diversity. On 2012, Dean reiterated ...
Would Republicans Rush to Repeal Health Law If They Could Make It Stick?
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyWould House Republicans be rushing to repeal the new health law if they thought they might succeed? Forgive me for being skeptical, but I think not. Democrats have already done the dirty work and heavy lifting, and taken the political hits, for things that we all know must happen. It's hard to believe Republicans would want to start all over again. Oh sure, they'd like you to believe the Affordable Care Act is a 2,000-page crap sandwich, as our incoming House speaker once described the 2008 bank bailout bill (and that was only 451 pages). It is big, there's no disputing that. It's got many, ...
Opinion: Can We All Be Drafted Into Health Care Reform War?
By not in system - AOL News(Dec. 16) -- Is it "necessary and proper" for Congress to draft every American into a nationwide health insurance pool? The Obama administration claims it is and will be making this argument in a Florida federal court Thursday after having lost its case in a separate federal court earlier this week. Most non-lawyer Americans must wonder how coercing citizens to buy health insurance could possibly be constitutional. Never before has the federal government claimed the power to force citizens to buy anything from a private party. If Congress can mandate the purchase of insurance, what prevents ...
Health Care and Same-Sex Marriage: Liberty for Me, but Not for Thee
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyThe e-mails came pouring into in-boxes throughout the world of journalism and politics and law Monday afternoon, celebratory messages from conservative groups and others opposed to the nation's new health care laws, and they all made the same essential point: U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson's ruling that day, striking down the "individual mandate provision" of what so many of them ignobly called "Obamacare," was a victory for "freedom" and "liberty." "Today is a great day for liberty," said Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah). "Liberty requires limits on government, and today those limits have been ...
Opinion: Health Care Mandates? Nothing New for Foreign Students
By not in system - AOL News(Dec. 13) -- Today, U.S. District Court Judge Henry E. Hudson ruled that the "individual mandate" to purchase health insurance -- the centerpiece of the new health care reform law -- is unconstitutional. Judge Hudson is the first judge to make that determination -- to date, rulings on two similar suits have gone the other way. Curiously, though, individual mandates compelling the purchase of health insurance have been around for decades. For foreign students studying in the U.S., individual mandates are old news. Other Views on the Ruling Good News for Reform Backers ...
Health Care Reform Legal Challenge Marches Forward
By not in system - AOL News(Oct. 15) -- On Thursday, a federal judge in Florida ruled that a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the health care law can move forward. U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson allowed two of the suit's challenges to proceed: 1) that Congress exceeds its authority with the "individual mandate" that requires almost all Americans to buy insurance, and 2) that the expansion of Medicaid compromises state sovereignty. The suit was brought by the governors and attorneys general of 20 states, and a summary judgment hearing to discuss its merits will be held in December. A Case to Watch: There ...
Opinion: Obamacare Critics -- Be Careful What You Wish For
By not in system - AOL News(Aug. 9) -- Last week, opponents of the new health care reform law cheered what they saw as two victories -- a federal district court said a Virginia lawsuit against the reform could proceed, and Missouri voters overwhelmingly supported an anti-reform ballot initiative. Both targeted a key part of the reform law -- the requirement that everyone have or purchase health care insurance. As Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., put it, "The voters of Missouri sent a clear message that the federal government has no business forcing people to buy health insurance against their will. And I ...
Seven Things Republicans Were For, Before They Were Against Them
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyI happened to be in the room the day John Kerry said he had voted for a war-financing bill before he voted against it. Republicans appropriated the sentence (uttered at a 2004 town hall for veterans in Huntington, West Virginia) and used it to paint Kerry as a flip-flopper. Six years later, it's a better fit for the GOP than it ever was for him. So many Republicans have changed their ideas on so many major issues that it's hard to keep up. With the return of Congress this week, two of those issues – campaign finance disclosure and climate change – could play out in the Senate over ...
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