Hey, You Can Put Away Your Razors Next Month
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Put Down What You’re Doing Right Now And Go Get Covered
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Wait What Is Even Happening With the Affordable Care Act: A Tale of Two Rulings
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The DC Court of Appeals and the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals both handed down rulings on health care subsidies today with totally conflicting opinions. The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously in King v. Burwellthat health care subsidies should be available to all who have purchased insurance on the health care exchange, as the IRS is currently providing. The DC Court of Appeals ruled…
SCOTUS: Religious Beliefs Trump Reproductive Health, Corporations Have First Amendment Rights
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“The more I think about it, the more I think there’s no better person to craft a story about celebrity and about the folklorish narratives we develop about celebrities than the celebrity herself. Not because J.Lo is able to actually shed any light on her life and choices or even really display any genuine vulnerability, but because with all the artifice and spectacle of a project like this, therein lies a certain authenticity. This is exactly how J.Lo wants to be perceived. Through a lens of dreamscape and lore. “This Is Me…Now” isn’t an explanation so much as an abstraction.”
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