Jonathan Chait, yesterday, at New York Magazine:
….This is why it’s vital to bring yourself face-to face with the implications of mass uninsurance – not as emotional manipulation, but to force you to decide what forms of material deprivation ought to be morally acceptable. This question has become, at least at the moment, the primary philosophical divide between the parties. Democrats will confine the unfortunate to many forms of deprivation, but not deprivation of basic medical care. Republicans will. The GOP is the only mainstream political party in the advanced world to hold this stance….
Go. Read the whole thing.
James Fallows argues in The Atlantic that the Supreme Court is ruling based on partisan politics:
Losers always cry foul, but he makes a good argument. Greg Sargent throws more fuel on the fire:
Adding, though, that:
So, overthrowing Obamacare: evil consequences for Americans from bad behavior from a politicized court? I guess we’re as ready for tomorrow as we’ll ever be.
..interviewed Ken Warren on the SCOTUS health care hearings.
As he points out, the lower courts rulings were partisan, we shouldn’t expect anything different on Thurs., right?