Scientists expected to announce Wednesday that they have discovered trace evidence of the elusive Higgs boson particle, the AP reports.
The IRS is taking a hard look at political ‘charities’ like Crossroads GPS.
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows increased support for ‘Obamacare’ in the aftermath of last week’s Supreme Court ruling while also showing an intensification of opposition.
I think Paul Ryan just said God wants us to repeal ‘Obamacare’.
Still have questions about the politics and policy and even the legal ins and outs of the Health Care decision. Our Senior Capitol Hill Reporter and lead health care correspondent did a detailed Q&A with readers on Thursday answering all your questions. Check it out here.
I’ve got a question: Just how stupid are all you reporters? No, that’s not a rhetorical question. Whether you want to call the ACA health care mandate a tax or not is mainly a semantic point. It’s a penalty or tax or perhaps a tax penalty on people who refuse to purchase health insurance, even after they received subsidies that make it possible. But Republicans are now saying it’s the ‘biggest tax increase in history’ — either of America or the universe of whatever. But this is demonstrably false.
The Congressional Budget Office says the mandate penalty will raise $27 billion between 2012 and 2021. $27 billion over a decade. Anybody who cares to can do the math. But if you want to call it a ‘tax increase’ — which is debatable — it’s clearly one of tiniest ones in history.
I’d be curious how many interviewers are (or are not) stopping folks who make this claim and pointing out this fact. Send me examples.
In addition to the week of the historic Health Care Reform decision before the Supreme Court, this last week was also the week of the incredibly short-lived progressive boomlet in favor of single-payer national health care reform.
Had the Supreme Court struck down ‘Obamacare’, the idea was to dispense with all the half-measures and simply push going forward for what most left-liberals and perhaps most Democrats actually support, which is a single payer national health care program — some version of what exists in virtually every other major industrialized country in the world or, in terms more readily understandable to Americans, Medicare For All. Read More
Brian Beutler recaps the torturous political and legal path that health care reform had to travel, with our key stories from the last three years.