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Fifth Circuit Sends Obamacare Severability Issue Back to Square One—But Not Quite
The appellate court remanded the most important issue in the case back to the district court. But its instructions will make it difficult for the trial judge to again rule that the entire Affordable Care Act must fall with the individual mandate.
Medicare for All Is Defining the 2020 Democratic Race
A decade after Obamacare, the Democratic Party has embraced health care radicalism.
The Trump Administration Does Not Support The Total Invalidation of the ACA
DOJ (Quietly) Prefers Justice Thomas’s Approach from Murphy v. NCAA: Only Enjoin the Provisions that Injure the Plaintiffs
The Affordable Care Act Imposes A Mandate. Not a Choice.
The Structure of NFIB v. Sebelius: Parts III.A, III.B, III.C, and III.D
The Private Plaintiffs Are Still Standing in Texas v. U.S.
If the Private Plaintiffs in NFIB v. Sebelius were injured by the mandate, then the Private Plaintiffs in Texas v. U.S. are injured by the mandate
Rand Paul Was Right to Delay Vote on Funding Bill for 9/11 First Responders
The Kentucky senator wants the Senate to consider offsetting spending cuts before approving limitless, automatic spending for the rest of the century.
Bernie Sanders Thinks Medicare for All Could Cost $40 Trillion
The cost of single-payer would dwarf the price of Obamacare.
Joe Biden's New Health Care Plan Is an Admission that Obamacare Doesn't Work
Biden is framing his new plan as a defense of Obamacare. It's not.
My Concluding Thoughts on Severability in Texas v. U.S.
Severability doctrine & the ACA findings seem to support Judge O'Connor's ruling
NFIB v. Sebelius Already Addressed the "Injury in Fact" Question in Texas v. U.S.
An important element of standing has already been decided by the Court
Texas v. U.S.: Why the Individual Mandate is Still Unconstitutional
Understanding NFIB v. Sebelius
House Democrats Back Bill That Would Result in 500,000 People Losing Health Insurance
A new Congressional Budget Office report shows the consequences of undoing Trump-era rules on less regulated health coverage.
Trump Says Republicans Are Working on a New Health Care Plan. Somehow, Mitt Romney Is Involved.
The new plan is likely to resemble an old plan that was barely a plan at all.
The Trump Administration Now Wants All of Obamacare Struck Down
This is selective enforcement of the law for political purposes.
Trump's Emergency Declaration May Be Legal, but It's an Affront to the Constitution Anyway
It's an attempt to make an end-run around congressional spending authority.
Over-the-Counter Contraception Is Immensely Popular. But Democrats Have Doomed It.
In 2019, it's liberals, not conservatives, who are holding the pill hostage for political gain.
Birth Control Rules Halted by Judge Just Before Scheduled Start Today: Reason Roundup
Plus: Libertarians face resistance while picking up trash without a permit, and Trump imagines Sen. Warren at the Wounded Knee massacre.
Sorry, Paul Krugman, the Government Shutdown Is No Great Libertarian Experiment
Trump's shutdown is a temporary, political fight that won't save any money or reduce the size of government.
It Sure Looks Like This Obamacare Program Has Led to More People Dying
Under the health law, Medicare started penalizing hospitals for too many readmissions. Now mortality rates are up.
Understanding the New Obamacare Decision, Texas v. United States: Part I
[A guest-post by Prof. Josh Blackman (South Texas College of Law), a noted expert on Obamacare-related litigation. -EV]
Thoughts on Today's Federal Court Decision Against Obamacare
The judge was right to conclude that the individual health insurance mandate is now unconstitutional, but wrong to rule that the rest of the ACA is now unlawful because it can't be severed from the largely toothless mandate left in place under the 2017 GOP tax bill.
A Texas Judge Just Ruled Obamacare Unconstitutional
The ruling will almost certainly be appealed.
What Obamacare Sabotage? Under Trump, the Health Law Is Working Better Than Ever.
Premiums are down and choice is up after Republican tweaks to the Affordable Care Act.
Big Changes for Birth Control Rules, but Not Big Enough
The Obamacare contraception mandate is getting a Trump-era overhaul.
Another Republican Capitulation on Health Care
The White House plans to import foreign prescription-drug socialism to the United States.
A Surprisingly Normal Election
The biggest shock from yesterday's midterms was that everything went more or less as expected.
Trump Warns That Democrats 'Would Obliterate Obamacare'
At an election-eve campaign rally, Trump all but defends the health law he tried to repeal.
Trump's Misleading Statement On Obamacare Is a Sign That Republicans Have No Idea How to Talk About Health Policy
Instead of justifying the GOP position on pre-existing conditions, Trump and other Republicans are trying to confuse people.
Forget Trump. The 2018 Midterm Election Is a Fight About Obamacare's Pre-Existing Conditions Rules
Turns out voters like the Democratic health law...when it's run by Republicans.
Donald Trump Defends Medicare, a Socialist Program, from the Threat of Socialism
In a new op-ed attacking single-payer, Trump inadvertently reveals that he's in favor of socialism-as long as it's for his supporters.
Kavanaugh's Elevation to the Supreme Court Is a Moment of Worrying Instability
His true impact may be less about transforming the Court's ideology, and more about altering its status in political life.
Health Insurance Deductibles Up 212 Percent Since 2008: Reason Roundup
Plus: Kavanaugh confirmation is official and child care tax credits backfire.
Trump's Obamacare Sabotage Has Resulted In…No Change to the Uninsured Rate
New Census data shows little change from 2016.
Hillary Clinton Spreads Fake News, Suggests Brett Kavanaugh Will Ban Birth Control
Clinton runs with a Kamala Harris whopper that's already been debunked.
Obama Endorses Medicare-for-All
While president, Obama was a single-payer critic. Out of office, he thinks it's the wave of the future.
How Formerly Independent Doctors Were Pushed Out of Business
Rules and regulations intended to reform health care are driving private practices out of business by overconfident design.
The Fight Over Brett Kavanaugh Is a Preview of a Future In Which All Political Arguments Are Health Care Arguments
Trump's SCOTUS nominee probably won't have an impact on Obamacare. But that won't stop Democrats from making the argument.
SCOTUS Shortlister Brett Kavanaugh on Obamacare and Judicial Restraint
Reviewing the record of a possible replacement for Justice Anthony Kennedy.
Is 'Civility' Possible, Let Alone Desirable, in Trump's America?: Podcast
Reason editors grapple with disassociation etiquette, family separation, third-party legal doctrine, health association plans, and the existential despair of Fozzie Bear
Why the Individual Mandate Part of the New Obamacare Case Matters
Most of the attention on the twenty state lawsuit against Obamacare understandably focuses on the "severability" issue, which could lead to the demise of the entire Affordable Care Act. But the individual mandate part could also set an important precedent.
Obamacare Critics and Defenders Team Up Against the Trump Administration's Refusal to Defend the Health Law in Court
The DOJ's argument for striking down the health law's preexisting conditions rules is weak.
Thoughts on the Trump Administration's Decision Not to Defend Obamacare [updated with acknowledgement that I misinterpreted one of the administration's arguments]
They have every right to refuse to do so, much as Obama had a right to refuse to defend the Defense of Marriage Act. But some of the arguments Trump is making are extremely dubious.
The Trump Administration Won't Defend Obamacare's Individual Mandate In Court
Instead, the executive branch will argue that the insurance requirement and the health law's preexisting conditions rules should be struck down.
Trump Just Backed Out of the Nuclear Summit With North Korea: Reason Roundup
Plus: Obamacare premiums rise, Trump praises NFL anthem policy.
Under Trump, Republicans Have Become the Party of No Ideas
The GOP is abandoning policy goals that used to define the party, and replacing them with raw Trumpism.
