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Obamacare

APRIL 29, 2010 States Face Their First ObamaCare Test By GRACE-MARIE TURNER States have until tomorrow to let Washington know if they plan to participate in one of the first government programs to be launched under ObamaCare—new high-risk pools for the uninsured. The question states should be asking is: Why would we participate? The high-risk

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ObamaCare

APRIL 9, 2010 Medical Privacy and ObamaCare By BETSY MCCAUGHEY Eighteen states are challenging the constitutionality of the Obama health law. Their challenge focuses on whether the federal government can require everyone to buy coverage. They gloss over an issue more consequential to our health and longevity: Can the federal government dictate how doctors treat

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The Atlantic – Accounting Basics

Henry Waxman’s War on Accounting By Megan McArdle Accounting basics:  when a company experiences what accountants call “a material adverse impact” on its expected future earnings, and those changes affect an item that is already on the balance sheet, the company is required to record the negative impact–“to take the charge against earnings”–as soon as

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REPEAL!

The Weekly Standard Why and how Obamacare must be undone BY Yuval Levin April 5 – April 12, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 28 In the days since the enactment of their health care plan, Democrats in Washington have been desperately seeking to lodge the new program in the pantheon of American public-policy achievements. House Democratic

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