Subject: Share the View -- on Obamacare Alternatives and Obama as FDR
From: "Bloomberg View -- Tobin Harshaw" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 05:01:04 -0400

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A Quick Look at Bloomberg News's Opinion Section for March 29,  2012

   It's been a tough week for Obamacare, what with the claims of
   unconsitutionality and the comparisons to broccoli and Antonin Scalia
   setting off a grail-like quest for the "limiting principle." Yet it's the
   plan's opponents who should be uneasy, says View columnist Ezra Klein, if
   they would simply consider the alternatives. "Of course, this battle isn’t
   really about the constitutionality of the individual mandate," explains
   Klein. "The real fight is over whether the Affordable Care Act should exist
   at all. Republicans lost that battle in Congress, where they lacked a
   majority in 2010 ... If the mandate falls, future politicians, who will
   still need to fix the health-care system and address the free-rider problem,
   will be left with the option to move toward a single payer system or offer
   incredibly large, expensive tax credits in order to persuade people to do
   things they don’t otherwise want to do." In other words, be careful what you
   wish for: "In the name of liberty, Republicans and their allies on the
   Supreme Court will have guaranteed a future with much more government
   intrusion in the health-care marketplace." ([2]Link.)
     Links:
       2. http://bloom.bg/GXIF2r

   Also, the editors want to give some teeth to Medicare's payment board.
   ([3]Link.)
   Amity Shlaes describes how Barack Obama is morphing into FDR. ([4]Link.)
   Caroline Baum spreads the alarm over the national-debt time bomb. ([5]Link.)
   Robert H. Gertner looks to rein in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
   ([6]Link.)
   Oleg Kashin explains that Russia's protesters have a personality problem.
   ([7]Link.)
   And Steven Greenhut tells us why some Californians are suddenly all for
   higher taxes. ([8]Link.)
     Links:
       3. http://bloom.bg/GWvICB
       4. http://bloom.bg/H1TiAh
       5. http://bloom.bg/HgI1bM
       6. http://bloom.bg/GX7Tiv
       7. http://bloom.bg/HppjPZ
       8. http://bloom.bg/HoM5sl

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