Go here or click on the embedded video below. Not surprisingly, Oliver hates the House bill. And he's worried that the Senate will do little to make things better. Rather, he's concerned that the Senate will just "cut a sh*t sandwich in half" and then Congress and Trump will feed it to the country.
Author Archives: Brian Wolfman
That's the name of this opinion piece by Peter Suderman. Suderman is a critic of the Affordable Care Act who thinks Trumpcare is far worse than the ACA. Some brief excerpts: I have been a critic of Obamacare since it became law, but the Republican alternative is worse in nearly every way. * * * It’s unclear […]
Jonathan Gruber, an MIT econ prof and a key parent of Romneycare and the Affordable Care Act, has written Trump says Obamacare is broken. He’s the one who broke it. Here's an excerpt: What supporters of [Trumpcare] are not admitting, however, is that the ACA’s current failings are due to the misguided policies of Republicans and particularly the […]
I thought our readers might be interested in why conservative Andrew Sullivan believes that Trumpcare Destroys Any Notion That American Conservatism Gives A Damn.
Sarah Light has written about the concept of Advisory Nonpreemption, using regulation of driverless cars as an example. Here's the abstract: We are living in an era of dramatic and unpredictable technological and business innovation. Federal agencies have been at the forefront of updating substantive legal rules to meet new challenges not originally contemplated by Congress. […]
That's a quote from the abstract of Valuing Black Lives: A Constitutional Challenge to the Use of Race-Based Tables in Calculating Tort Damages by law profs Kim Yuracko and Ronen Avraham. Here's the full abstract: In 2011, a young couple eagerly expecting the birth of their first child moved into an apartment in Brooklyn, New York, excited […]
Nader — who took the airlines all the way to the Supreme Court way back when, and won — has written this USA Today op-ed on the use of consumer power to bring the airlines down a few notches.
This article by Abha Bharrarai reviews anecdotal evidence and data from Internet searches for flights to the U.S. indicating that, as a result of Trump's travel ban, far fewer people want to travel to the U.S. for tourism, conferences, and other temporary visits. The article suggests that this phenomenon could cause great economic harm to segments of […]
It's often claimed that patent law and its enforcement (or not) affects consumer well-being. We know, for instance, that the presence of a patent (or not) often has a significant effect on a drug's price. And drug companies maintain that patent protection promotes innovation, in turn, they say, benefiting consumers. (For more on that topic, […]
That's the name of this article by Steven Harper (subscription possibly required). Harper begins by telling us that his concerns over [Secretary of Education Betsy] DeVos's willingness to deal effectively with student-loan policy "goes far beyond the embarrassing ignorance on display at DeVos’ confirmation hearing. . . . She knows nothing about basic educational policy, the decades-old Individuals […]