Is the Employer Mandate in Trouble?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 6th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Is the Employer Mandate in Trouble?
Cunningham & Cheney, Politico
Robert Gibbs’ prediction that Obamacare’s employer mandate would — and perhaps should — be jettisoned shocked Democrats back in April.By July, the former aide and longtime confidant of President Barack Obama had a lot more company. More and more liberal activists and policy experts who help shape Democratic thinking on health care have concluded that penalizing businesses if they don’t offer health insurance is an unnecessary element of the Affordable Care Act that may do more harm than good. Among them are experts at the Urban Institute and the Commonwealth Fund…
Britain Can’t Ignore Islamist Terror
Matthew d’Ancona, The Telegraph
A Company Liberals Could Love
Ross Douthat, New York Times
FOR a generation now, liberals have bemoaned the disappearance of the socially conscious corporation, the boardroom devoted to the common good. Once, the story goes, America’s C.E.O.s recognized that they shared interests with workers and customers; once wages and working hours reflected more than just a zeal for profits. But then came Reagan, deregulation, hostile takeovers, and an era of solidarity gave way to the age of Gordon Gekko, from which there’s been no subsequent escape.
Governing in the Spirit of Revenge
Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
WASHINGTON — As we celebrate the Fourth of July, who can argue that our democracy is working the way the Founders intended? And who can deny that most of the blame for dysfunction must fall to the Republican Party?George Washington distrusted all political parties. He warned in his farewell address that as they alternated power, parties would act in “the spirit of revenge” — rather than, presumably, in the best interests of the nation. The “disorders and miseries” that resulted, Washington feared, would inevitably threaten democracy.For most of American history, the major parties, even…
