N.C. Aizenman covered Judge Roger Vinson’s rejection of the Obama administration’s motion to dismiss the 20 state legal challenge to Obamacare’s individual mandate for the October 15th Washington Post. Providing some background in the decision, Aizenman writes:

Last week, in a suit brought by private parties, a federal judge in Michigan unequivocally upheld Congress’s authority on that point. However, Vinson described the question as far from settled, because the relevant clauses of the Constitution “have never been applied in such a manner before.”

But the Michigan judges’s decision was not as unequivocally different from Judge Vinson’s opinion as Aizenman lets on, … Continue Reading

The USA Today’s Susan Page worked on a tight deadline to get her July 15th story How much health care for $1 trillion? published, and it shows. First she gets the price tag of the House bill wrong. She cites it as $1.042 trillion. But that is only the current net impact on the deficit, which includes some early “pay-fors” in the bill including an employer “pay-or-play” employer mandate. The CBO has not done a complete scoring on the net impact to the deficit since they have not scored the surtax and other Medicare payment reduction in the bill. … Continue Reading