health care

Argument preview: Health care, Part III — Beyond the mandate

Jason Harrow
March 22, 2012 04:04

On Wednesday, March 28, the Supreme Court holds its third day of hearings on constitutional issues surrounding the new federal health care law.  This is the third of four articles that will appear on the blog this week, previewing the issues that the Court has agreed to review.  These articles...

Health care advocacy posts

Jason Harrow
March 21, 2012 21:30

In anticipation of next week’s oral arguments, several longer advocacy pieces have been written about the Affordable Care Act. Earlier this month, Randy Barnett wrote a post at the Volokh Conspiracy in which he distinguished the challenge to the individual mandate from Gonzales v. Raich and...

Health Benefits, US Supreme Court and Workers Compensation

March 21, 2012 21:15

U.S. Supreme Court building. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) On Monday, the US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments concerning the validity of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Whatever the US Supreme Court decides in the pending matters, the nation's patchwork of workers'...

Argument preview: Health care, Part II — Fate of the mandate

Jason Harrow
March 21, 2012 04:03

On Tuesday, March 27, the Supreme Court will meet for the second day of hearings on constitutional issues surrounding the new federal health care law.  This is the second of four articles that will appear on the blog this week, previewing the issues that the Court has agreed to review.   These...

New CBO JCT Analysis of Affordable Care Act's Impact on Employer Provided Health Insurance

Keith A. Ashmus
March 20, 2012 19:57

As indicated in our previous post, the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation have been examining the impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("Affordable Care Act" or "Obamacare") on employer-provided health insurance, and the impact of that upon the costs...