Only 16 states run their own exchanges. The federal government runs extend his for the remaining 34 states that opted out of setting up their own. The court is expected to rule on the case before the end of the term in june. This is an hour and 20 minutes. Well hear arguments this morning in case 14114, king v. Burwell. Mr. Carvin. Mr. Chief justice, and may it please the court, this is a straightforward case of statutory construction where the plain language of the statute dictates the result. Mr. Carvin, will you please back up, because before we get to a question of statutory construction, as you know, each plaintiff, or at least one plaintiff, has to have a concrete stake in these questions. They cant put them as ideological questions. And we have as four plaintiffs. As to two of them, there is a declaration stating i am not eligible for Health Insurance from the government, but theres a question of whether they are veterans eligible for coverage as veterans. Yes. One of those is m
Its well, thats what qualified means, justice alito. It means that, you know, if youre not qualified, youre unqualified. And so, i mean, thats what it means. And so youre just reading the word qualified out of the statute if you read it that way. Qualified is used in the in the lay sense of the term, its not a technical term here. Well, i think well, given the way its defined, its defined as a person who resides in the state. It excludes people out of state. It does that because the statute was quite clear that you werent going to be allowed to shop for insurance policies across state lines because that would infringe on traditional state prerogatives regulating insurance. And it and with respect to prisoners, it doesnt make any sense to say that prisoners should be able to get insurance. Mr. Carvin says, yes, it does because they get out of prison. Well, theres a specific statutory provision that says when you face a changedlife circumstance, such as getting out of prison, you can sig
My goodness people are talking about it. Round up the usual suspects. Well in fact we do not want to discourage their newfound interest. But we are not buying that old trickledown economics that didnt work before and can never work again because it defies arithmetic and reality. [applause] so we welcome them to come with their ideas and that is what it should be about. Elections should be the contest of ideas. And i think emilys list has proven that in that contest of ideas, the women who are willing to enter the arena well equipped in some great measure by the support they get from emilys list, can make their case and can be elected. When i think in my own life history, i like so many of you am in this room and across this country. My grandfather was a factory worker that started at the age of 11 and worked until he was 65 and got to retire. His son, my father went to college. He was a small businessman who worked really hard and made a good life for us. My mother had a terrible abusi
[inaudible conversations] [applause] my book released in november has the title with a slight sense of irony freemarket is in quotations i talk about how the free market which we think of as the quintessential opposite of the government was created by the government. This is clear they a push back against the talk of recently to keep the government out of health care, my medicare coming is the government up to the task of reforming the Health Care System . After the shaky rollout is it capable of doing anything . I started this book in 2008 before there was obamacare or even president obama banda has a lot to say about the Affordable Care act white is the way it is with the content so events played themselves out as they did so that i can leave up to what is happening today that is part of the historical picture. I start out with the conventional view of the widely held view of how government regulators and private industries interact or failed to interact which is true across the coun
Discontent on what to do with the Affordable Care act . Will Party Pressure particularly in the senate push the president to change course . This morning, more bad weather delays and the arrival of an american aircraft characterer to help victims in the philippines. We will go live for the latest. As boeing lands, the biggest state tax break in american history. A deep dive into how far states, counties and cities will go to do business with big business. This is actually corporate welfare. Wednesday, november 13th, 2013. The first read is straight ahead, we will start with the latest on the scope of the devastation left by typhoon haiyan. This is what we know about the philippines. The death toll is 2,344 and that is expected to rise. The president said it is not likely to reach the 10 thousand estimate as some had thought. At least two u. S. Citizens are among the dead. The filipino red cross puts the preliminary number of missing at 22,000 people. The filipino government said they h