Criminal Law

The Obamacare burden to your state budget
Conn Carroll writing at the Heritage Foundation / The Foundry: "The crisis facing states across the country is that Obamacare forces states to massively expand their already burdensome Medicaid rolls...

Obamacares Medicaid Burden
Medicaid is burdening the states with financial liabilities of hundreds of billions of dollars. Already Obamacare is making this problem far worse through its 'maintenance of effort' clause, which forbids states from tightening their eligibility requirements even as their economies shrink...

Some Tentative Thoughts on the Medicaid Case
Ilya Somin at the Volokh Conspiracy: In all the hoopla over the individual mandate, most people (myself emphatically included) have not devoted enough attention to the other big Obamacare case before the Court: the 26 states? challenge to to the part of the act requiring the states to massively expand Medicaid coverage (covering every non-elderly with an income up to 138% of the poverty line) or face the loss of all their federal Medicaid funds...

UNEXPECTEDLY! Most Illinois Specialists Wont Take Medicaid Patients. Obviously, this has implica
UNEXPECTEDLY! Most Illinois Specialists Won’t Take Medicaid Patients. “Obviously, this has implications for the plans to cut Medicare reimbursements. And for the success of ObamaCare, since most of the coverage expansion will come, not from the exchanges, but from extending Medicaid...

Expanding Medicaid: Some States Wary
The Wall Street Journal reports on some concerns of state governors about expanding Medicaid. Jonathan Weisman writes: Some governors are pushing to scale back or kill proposals to expand Medicaid to provide health-care coverage to the uninsured, raising a new...

How Obamacare burdens already strained state budgets
How Obamacare Burdens Already Strained State Budgets Lanhee Chen, Ph.D. "A growing number of state budgets are in danger of collapsing under multibillion-dollar deficits?and are about to be burdened with billions more in costs imposed by the new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)...

Dumb Texas Laws
Stupid Laws in the Lone Star State

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

Florida Medicaid
Limiting Coverage of Drugs for Kids

Wind and Hail Coverage
Allstate Corp. agrees to restore insurance coverage and pay $250,000 settlement.

Texas Employment Law
alleged violations of Texas labor laws including overtime pay, discrimination and harassment.

Hospital Malpractice
Corning Hospital agrees to $2.4 million medical negligence settlement after a baby was born with brain damage.

Hospital Staph
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital pays British actress Leslie Ash $10 million settlement after contracting the dangerous infection.

Suit Filed On Behalf of 400,000 Michigan Medicaid-Dependents Denied Access to Dental Healthcare
Michigan Medicaid Sued Over Dental Healthcare