Today’s blog finishes up a week of my comments about Obamacare. To end the week, I’m featuring one small business owner who shares my appreciation of the healthcare reform and what it has done and will do for small businesses. Unlike the small business that contacted me yesterday asking to be…
Supreme Court loses more public trust after partisan comments during “Obamacare” hearing
The following is an excerpt from an opinion editorial by Juan Williams that appears in today’s The Hill. A Pew poll from last week found that 21 percent of Americans have a less favorable view of the Court after oral arguments in the healthcare case. Only 7 percent report a…
Commentary: Small-business owners say the future looks bleak if health care law overturned
The Washington PostApril 1, 2012 By Jamal Lee Last week, the nation’s attention was riveted to the Supreme Court, where oral arguments were being made over the constitutionality of the health care reform law, also known as the Affordable Care Act. Pundits have been making one prediction after another as…
Round three…reality sets in
Now the waiting begins…Oh, and the PR efforts continue in an effort to influence the final decision. The Supreme Court had its hearings, all sides had their say, and the reality sets in. But it’s not the reality for all Americans that the Affordable Care Act come July might be…
Round two
The media reported that the government’s attorney, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr., had a tough day yesterday arguing in front of the Supreme Court that the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate was constitutional. His opening remarks were apparently not as coherent as they should have been and he consequently sustained…
NFIB continues the fraud
The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) is basking in the media attention as being one of the plaintiffs against the Affordable Care Act. The Supreme Court starts hearing the case today. (Yesterday the New York Times did an excellent short summary of what will happen during each of the…
Why campaign spending rules hurt small business
CNN OpinionJanuary, 26, 2012 By David Brodwin, Special to CNN (CNN) — Two years ago, the Supreme Court upended the rules for campaign finance, unleashing a tsunami of unregulated, unrestricted and undisclosed spending that has, in effect, allowed donors to buy elections. The full impact of this decision is just…