affordable care act

Activist Judges on Trial

Mar 29, 2012
Three days of Supreme Court arguments over the health care law demonstrated for all to see that conservative justices are prepared to act as an alternative legislature, diving deeply into policy details as if they were members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
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Romneycare, v. 2012

Jan 14, 2012
The Affordable Care Act, the health reform signed into law by Obama, is now best known by the Republican label “Obamacare.” Romney hopes to ride that misleading word to the presidency.The Republican attack on Obama invokes an image of a man who is somehow not American, who is too African, too left, maybe even, God forbid, a socialist.