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Use your words: Healthcare mandate is not a tax hike

July 6, 2012 Gloria Shur Bilchik Charity & Justice, Civil Rights, Congress, Consumer issues, Courts, Government, Health care, Obama, Politics Leave a comment

Now that the Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act,  Republicans  have lost their main argument against it. So, naturally,

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Roberts chooses conservative over extreme

June 29, 2012 Arthur Lieber Charity & Justice, Civil Rights, Congress, Courts, Health care, Human Rights, Obama, Politics, Poverty, Reproductive rights, Uncategorized, Women One comment

John Roberts has one iron in the fire that none of the other conservatives on the Supreme Court have. As chief justice, it is

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Stupid legislative tricks: Missouri edition

May 21, 2012 Gloria Shur Bilchik Charity & Justice, Civil Rights, Courts, Government, Health care, Humor, Missouri region, Politics, Religion in Politics, Reproductive rights, States One comment

The silly—and nasty—season in Jefferson City, Missouri came to a merciful end last night [May 18, 2012], with the customary cheers and sophomoric tossing-in-the-air

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Individual mandates: not new, not unconstitutional

March 22, 2012 Gloria Shur Bilchik Courts, Government, Health care, History One comment

So, you think it’s unconstitutional and unprecedented to pass a federal law mandating the purchase of a product? Think again. In 1792, America’s founders,

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2.5 million new reasons to love “Obamacare”

December 17, 2011 Gloria Shur Bilchik Employment, Health care Leave a comment

I’m not qualified to say whether the individual mandate of the 2010 Affordable Care Act [ACA]  is constitutional, but I am pretty certain that

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1 million more young adults now have health insurance under ACA

September 22, 2011 Gloria Shur Bilchik Health care, Uncategorized Leave a comment

More evidence that President Obama’s healthcare reform program is beneficial:  Since the Affordable Care Act went into effect, young adults—who typically are the least

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