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Raistlin
, 12-22-2010 at 10:22 PM (1411 Views)
I have been neglecting this since finals, so here's some interesting things.

My pareidolia website was linked to in this HuffPo article, and we've received an exciting surge in activity. About 6k visits from HuffPo the day of the link, and we're still averaging almost 1k even this far after. It's also been popping up on Facebook and Twitter more.

In legal news, a Virginia federal court issued an opinion which ruled the healthcare bill unconstitutional, at least as far as the mandatory coverage provision is concerned (which would require everyone by 2014 to have healthcare or pay a steep penalty). Two other federal district courts have upheld the provision. I absolutely have to side with the latest Virginia court; justifying the ability to force everyone to buy a product based on the the commerce clause would be a huge and almost unprecedented expansion of government power. It would be the worst commerce clause debacle, followed only by Raich.

Fortunately, I'm pretty sure the current Supreme Court will rule that the healthcare mandate is unconstitutional, though I was also wrong about Raich and Kelo. If it is overturned, the whole healthcare bill could be threatened. Which is probably a good thing, so then maybe we can start talking about actual sensible reform which may actually help.

... ha ha, I know, fat chance.

Updated 12-23-2010 at 09:48 AM by Raistlin

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  1. Shlup's Avatar
    HuffPo called you a Tumblr. How random. Great advertising though.

    And yaaay no health care! I'm gonna give birth all by myself the way God intended.
  2. Raistlin's Avatar
    Yeah I don't know what is up with HuffPo (among other websites) calling STLLJ a Tumblr. xD

    You'll get health care when you get a job, hippie.
  3. Freya's Avatar
    STLLJ keeps giving me a "can't load" page :/

    EDIT: NVM after like 5 minutes of trying to get it to work it eventually did.
    Updated 12-23-2010 at 07:27 AM by Freya
  4. Raistlin's Avatar
    Really? It's working for me fine, and has all day. Is your connection slow? Try refreshing your cache.
  5. Shlup's Avatar
    BJ's job doesn't offer health care until he's worked there for a full year.
  6. Raistlin's Avatar
    This is why I've argued for years that the same tax benefits available to employer-based insurance should be made available to individually-purchased insurance, so low- and middle-income people aren't so required to be actively and constantly employed at a decent-level job in order to plausibly afford coverage. There's a bunch of possible reforms that could be done now to help people, but they will never happen because they don't make a bunch of money for health care companies.

    Far from fighting Big Insurance, Obama is catering to them every step of the way.
  7. Freya's Avatar
    Yeah the whole having to get insurance thing. I got rejected by 3 different places cause of ASTHMA yeah that's why. Bitches. It took me a year to finally get it so I know the whole mandate for having to have it wont work because the companies arent' willing to work with people