Keven Drum — The White Working Class Doesn't Believe That Obamacare Will Help Them

"The problem, as on almost all issues relating to government's role, is centered on whites, particularly those in the working class....Just 18 percent believe the law will leave their family better off, compared to 38 percent who believe they will be worse off as a result.

"....Gallup Polling in March 2010 found that while few whites expected to personally benefit from the law, a majority of them believed it would benefit low-income families and those without health insurance. That suggested they viewed health care reform primarily as a welfare program that would help the needy but not their own families."

Read it at Mother Jones
The White Working Class Doesn't Believe That Obamacare Will Help Them
by Kevin Drum

Jack Balkin — The tax power theory as a compromise position in the ACA litigation

It's unlikely that the Court will turn to the tax power argument when the lower courts were so cool to it. But it is a compromise position that might garner five or six votes if Kennedy and Roberts don't want to take a position on the commerce power. We'll see.

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The tax power theory as a compromise position in the ACA litigation
by Jack Balkin | Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment and Director, The Information Society Project at Yale Law School