The Affordable Care Act (ACA) reduces the national debt according to the most reliable evidence. Howling about the cost of the ACA is misplaced. How can the ACA possibly reduce the deficit? Partisan hysterics shriek that the ACA insurance coverage provisions,...
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Should Texas Accept or Reject the Medicaid Expansion? Part One
The Affordable Healthcare Act (ACA) expands Medicaid to all persons under age 65 with individual incomes of about $14,500 or less. Rejecting this ACA expansion would cost Texas about $52.5 billion in federal funds and leave 1.4 million low-income Texans without any...
The Affordable Health Care Act: The Next Chapter
United States Supreme Court Decision on the Affordable Health Care Act [1]: The Next Chapter © Jack Edward Urquhart July 12, 2012 Beirne, Maynard & Parsons, L.L.P. June 28, 2012, the United States Supreme Court resolved constitutional challenges to two provisions...
United States Supreme Court Rules on the Affordable Healthcare Act
© Jack Edward Urquhart June 29, 2012 The verdict is in: John Glover Roberts Jr. is a Chief Justice of uncommon skill. True, he rescued the Affordable Care Act[1] by breaking away from his fellow Republican appointees. But consider these significant features of his...
United States Supreme Court Shreds the Arizona “Immigration Law:” Does it Tip its Hand on Healthcare?
Arizona created its own immigration law in 2010. The federal government sued to declare this venture unconstitutional, arguing that the United States government, not Arizona, had the authority to set immigration policy. The federal district court sitting in Arizona...