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NFIB v. Sebelius (2012) is one of the landmark Supreme Court cases featured in the KTB Prep American Government and Civics series designed to acquaint users with the origins, concepts, organizations, and policies of the United States government and political system. The goal is greater familiarization with the rights and...
In his 2008 campaign, Barack Obama ran on changing healthcare. Why would the public have been receptive to that? Because healthcare sucked before 2010. Prateek Agarwal documents healthcare before ACA. Pre-ACA Pre-ACA, there were three types of private health insurance markets, all regulated by the state: large groups,...
It’s time to get down to business. After over 50 rounds of Congressional blueballs, those rightwing bastards will finally get the chance to explode all over the country. That’s right, people. The final thrusts to repeal Obamacare have begun. And after Wednesday night’s marathon voting session we know what the GOP’s...
Our new Republican majority will move to repeal ObamaCare and replace it with commonsense alternatives.” – Eric Cantor, 2010 Obamacare has long been the biggest thorn in the GOP’s side, and that’s saying a lot considering the rose bush that has been arguably America’s most successful progressive in modern...
The Fed indicated there would be a rise in rates if economy remains strong. The economy grew at 1.5% last quarter, a sharp decline from 3.9% of last quarter. The GDP is the broadest measure of the size and scope of our economy. Genomics Genomics is probably the...
Kim Kardashian tried to break the internet once, but last week’s dress controversy got the job done. Unless you’ve been hibernating in the Siberian mountains, or are colorblind, it’s doubtful you haven’t formed an opinion about the notorious blue/black, white/gold dress debate that surfaced from the Scottish island of...
I pointed out a few days ago how we hadn’t heard anything recently about ACA in the midterm elections. Well we just had two cases that in my opinion will maintain the status quo. Seemingly Partisan The conflicting appeals court rulings (Halbig v. Burwell, King v. Burwell) handed...