Jeffrey Toobin

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Jeffrey Toobin of CNN and The New Yorker on the Supreme Court's third and final day of hearings on the health care reform law

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    1. REMant  03/30/2012 12:09 PM Report

      I don't think I'll agree with him that nothing will again be attempted for a generation and all that. The GOP wants to eliminate tax expenditures, and greatly simplify the tax code. And they have not been so much opposed to healthcare as to using these means to that end. Therefore, as I have suggested for a few years now, simply offer to swap tax reform for a well-designed and capped single-payer health insurance system similar to Japan's. The present insurers will no doubt object mightily to seeing their position as middlemen jeopardized, but they will always have the option of proving themselves more efficient as HMOs. Anyway, business historians have identified a clear desire for rationalization and stabilization in industry and this would certainly do that. Set in a responsible budgetary framework, such as the Bowles-Simpson plan, and without falling victim to such specious claims as contraception and abortion being aspects of women's "reproductive health," I see no reason why it shouldn't fly through the Congress no matter who is elected president, which is not to say I think it would necessarily be anymore constitutional. The only real way to make healthcare more affordable, is to make it more affordable, i.e., it's a monetary problem, not a fiscal or antitrust problem.

    2. SharkswithfrikingLazers  03/30/2012 01:59 AM Report

      Here is an interesting broccoli argument on the Colbert Report since reductio ad absurdum is how the Supreme Court rolls:

      http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/411273/march-28-2012/march-28--2012---pt--2

      We don't have a national dysfunctional broccoli market and people are NOT trying to get to Massachusetts to get some broccoli from the other people who pay for broccoli.

      If I don't buy broccoli it doesn't raise the price of your broccoli and we are the only industrial country that does not provide universal broccoli.

      (By the way, isn't broccoli a secret message to H.W.?)

    3. SharkswithfrikingLazers  03/30/2012 01:42 AM Report

      Bush v Gore has the same significance?

      No way.

      Bush v Gore changed everything in the world for eight years.

    4. SharkswithfrikingLazers  03/30/2012 01:41 AM Report

      He tells us that the Individual Mandate is in grave, grave trouble. So what changed since Monday Charlie?

      Perhaps a question to compare and contrast his creation of one side of the news on Monday and then the creation of the opposite side of the news on Wednesday.

    5. tabs  03/29/2012 08:03 PM Report

      "The amount of heart ache the country went through to pass Health Care?" "The 30 million that won't get health care." It is clear which side of the debate Mr Toobin falls..one just wonders if he is a shill for the Obama administration? For there seems to be no impartiality in his commentary and as such we come back to the issue of credibility. Mr Toobin might at least put a disclaimer stating he has a bias as Mr Toobins job concerns accuracy of assessment and not editorial content. .