Legal scholars unsurprised by Roberts

The computer that assigns judges to 4th Circuit cases today drew a panel of three Democrats to hear the appeal over the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, leading conservative reporter Philip Klein to immediately tweet that the bill’s constitutionality will be upheld.

In determining the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act today, the Supreme Court had to answer four key questions. Here are the Court?s responses to these questions.?? Justices , Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotoymayor, and signed on to the 5-4 decision authored by Chief Justice John G. Roberts. Did the Anti-Injunction Act bar the Court from ...

One of the things that has confused me about the attack on the Affordable Care Act's constitutionality is that it's so limited. The Affordable Care Act isn't under attack, actually. Only the individual mandate is. And though the individual mandate is important to have, it could be replaced with some sort of automatic enrollment scheme, or some sort of modified penalty in which failure to purchase insurance locked you out of the bill's protections for a certain number of years.

The US Supreme Court ruled Obamacare is constitutional. Legislators in the state of Oklahoma have a different idea.

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Ludicrous Taxifornia Healthcare Proposal California keeps up its insane attack on businesses of all kinds, this time with a proposal to force small businesses away from money-saving self-insurance plans into the arms of more costly Obama-care plans. The LA Times writes, California seeks limits on small-business self-insurance trend

Former Governor and former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson would obviously be a very strong candidate for the open Senate seat in Wisconsin being vacated by Herb Kohl. And given his past record of leadership on health care policy, a hypothetical Senator Thompson could bring much-needed bipartisan support to the basic Affordable Care Act framework: