John Roberts won’t destroy Obamacare
From everything that’s been written about the Supreme Court’s hearing of the oral arguments for King v. Burwell today, you’d
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Obamacare punishes healthy
By relying on the healthiest people in the nation to fund affordable health care for those unwilling to take care
Read moreGruber joins Republicans in calling Americans stupid
Republicans have been calling Americans stupid for years. [Photo: Temecula Tea Party] Jonathan Gruber’s now-infamous reference to the “stupidity of
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The Textualist defense of Obamacare
Liberals and a bipartisan consensus of jurists and scholars have made a rational case that the Affordable Care Act should
Read moreObamacare: Tracing the conservative roots
Today is the deadline for open enrollment under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and despite numerous political compromises, some serious
Read moreRascovar column: Maryland’s Obamacare fiasco continues
How high will it go? How much more will it cost the O’Malley-Brown administration to fix or totally replace the dysfunctional online health insurance system that it bragged about until the software crashed on Day One?
It already is the most costly debacle in state history.
Read moreRascovar column: Brown has a health care albatross
Maryland’s lieutenant governor, Anthony Brown, has a problem that won’t go away — his still unexplained leadership role in the state’s disastrous Obamacare rollout.
This is the biggest sticking point in Brown’s run for governor. It could become an insurmountable obstacle if public attention remains focused on those computer glitches and poor sign-up results.
Read moreObama’s 2013 hiccups and 2014 opportunity
Sorry to disappoint the gloating vultures eager to feed on Barack Obama’s political corpse, but his fifth year, while rich
Read moreMaryland Reporter’s top 10 stories of 2013
We’re taking a break from Dec. 25 through Jan. 2. We don’t plan on publishing any original stories or the daily State Roundup until the day after New Year’s. Here are MarylandReporter.com’s top 10 stories of the year, based on traffic calculations by Google Analytics. Four of the top 10, including number 1 and 2, are about the “rain tax.”
Read moreRascovar column: Lt. Gov. Brown takes heat on Obamacare
Let’s face it: Maryland dropped the ball on implementing Obamacare. To date the rollout has been a failure. Who bears ultimate responsibility? Let’s start at the top with Gov. Martin O’Malley and his designated point man on the healthcare rollout, Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown. Ever since 2010, Brown has promoted his leadership role in the Obamacare implementation.
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