Thursday, April 16, 2015

Is the Bipartisan 'Doc Fix' Bad News for Obamacare?

Is the Bipartisan 'Doc Fix' Bad News for Obamacare?-nationaljournal: Congress just passed a big bipartisan health care bill, overwhelmingly and on a tight timeline. Now, some Democrats might hope the Supreme Court didn't notice. Republicans and Democrats defied just about everyone's expectations by passing a permanent "doc fix" after punting on the issue for more than a decade. Tuesday's 98-2 vote in the Senate was the kind of thing that isn't supposed to happen, especially on health care policy, in a gridlocked Congress.