TimAllenMDJD

Timothy Craig Allen, M.D.,J.D.: Jackson, Mississippi, United States; Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology in the University of Mississippi Medical School at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. B.S. Texas A&M University 1980; M.D. Baylor College of Medicine 1984; J.D.with honors University of Chicago 1998. Pulmonary Pathologist. Posts ≠ endorsements. Posts are my own and do not necessarily represent my institution.

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Obesity and sedentary lifestyles: risk for cardiovascular disease in women

Principles for high-quality, high-value laboratory testing

The surgeon's role in molecular biology

Mark Levin: “This decision I would go as far to say is lawless. Absolutely lawless!”

From the WSJ: Was Scalia's Dissent Originally a Majority Opinion?

From the NY Times: Richard Epstein: A Confused Opinion (HT: SD)

From the WSJ: The Roberts Rules (HT: SD)

From Scalia's dissent: "The constitutional protections that this case involves are protections of structure."

From the Denver Post: Supreme Court's ruling on health care fires up Tea Party

Year Of Law School Now Mandatory For Nation's 25-Year-Olds, Or Must Pay "Tax" (HT:KL)

We're all Europeans now (HT:KS)

From SCOTUSblog: AMA president cheers SCOTUS' healthcare holding

From the Washington Post: George Will: Conservatives’ consolation prize

From NPR: 'Many People Were Stunned'

The Health Care Compact

From SCOTUSblog: California Medical Association reaction to SCOTUS' health care holding

Federalism and Scalia's dissent (HT:SD)

From SCOTUSblog: "Justice John Roberts -- said to be a relentless conservative activist -- joined the court's "liberal wing" in saving the law"

From SCOTUSblog: Rand Paul: "Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be ‘constitutional’ does not make it so"

From Adam B at Daily Kos: The two chief justices

From CBS News: Despite today's Supreme Court ruling, polling has shown that the law is not especially popular with Americans

From SCOTUSblog: "Roberts was red-eyed and unhappy as he read.”

Then-Sen. Barack Obama's floor statement explaining why he would vote against confirming Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts (Sept 2005) (HT:AP)

"Dark Day for American Liberty"

No reason to do the wrong thing

From CNBC: Stocks Lower After Health Ruling; Banks Drag

Circus

The Tax Clause: 21st Century's Commerce Clause? "the Court did not sustain it as a command for Americans to buy insurance, but as a tax if they don’t"

In the blink of an eye: "This Election Just Became About Obamacare"

Classy

From SCOTUSblog: Opinion: http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/06/dont-call-it-a-mandate-its-a-tax/

From SCOTUSblog: Opinion: http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/06/dont-call-it-a-mandate-its-a-tax/

From SCOTUSblog: Opinion: http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/06/dont-call-it-a-mandate-its-a-tax/

Distinction without a difference: "the Court did not sustain it as a command for Americans to buy insurance, but as a tax if they don’t"

Buy or be taxed! "We ask only whether Congress has the power under the Constitution to enact the challenged provisions"

Drudge Report: "Take your medicine!"

SCOTUSblog: Amy, Tom,and Lyle are probably the three most listened to people on the planet right now

Like the ACA itself: "the opinions collectively are a monster"

Rejection of Commerce Clause "a major blow to Congress's authority to pass social welfare laws"?

The opinion in the health care cases is here. http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/11-393c3a2.pdf

Next: The Broccoli Mandate! "the penalty that someone must pay if he refuses to buy insurance is a kind of tax"

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/11-393c3a2.pdf

Holy mackerel: "the penalty that someone must pay if he refuses to buy insurance is a kind of tax"

From SCOTUSblog: "In opening his statement in dissent, Kennedy says: "In our view, the entire Act before us is invalid in its entirety."" Amen

Federalism may still have a breath of life left in it: "The Court holds that the mandate violates the Commerce Clause"

Twitterfeed: Shock. Is federalism dead?

From SCOTUblog: "The critical detail is that you cannot take away the existing Medicaid funds"

From SCOTUSblog: "The court reinforces that individuals can simply refuse to pay the tax and not comply with the mandate"

Wow. From SCOTUSblog: "Section 5000A need not be read to do more than impose a tax"

From SCOTUSblog: "Chief Justice Roberts' vote saved the ACA."