Obamacare: From Bad Faith to Worse Policy

Published July 28, 2014 4:43pm ET



“A lot of the liberal commentary about this week’s D.C. Circuit decision on Obamacare is hard to square with the way liberal judges have tended to approach these cases,” notes Ramesh Ponnuru. “I have in mind the commentators who say the decision is ‘corrupt,’ its theory ‘preposterous,’ and the conservatives who support it ‘dishonest.’” Indeed, leading up to last week’s decisions on whether or not the health care law authorizes federal insurance subsidies through exchanges not “established by the state[s],” supporters of the law were on high horses and in higher dudgeon.

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