Ricardo Perlingeiro (UFF): Recognizing the Public Right to Healthcare: The Approach of Brazilian Courts. Aeyal Gross (Tel Aviv): Is There a Human Right to Private Health Care? No, Obama didn't lie to you about your health care plans: Dean Baker on how the claim that President Obama lied in saying that people could keep their insurance looks like another Fox News special. From Wonkblog, Sarah Kliff on how the White House’s Obamacare fix is about to create a big mess; on how insurers are furious about the White House’s new Obamacare plan; and on how the backlash to the Obamacare fix has already started. From TNR, Jonathan Cohn on three keys to the Obamacare tweaks and five reasons a Congressional fix will be destructive; and attention, scared liberals: Resisting pressure to tweak the law now is in your political interest later — here's why. A clever P.R. stunt, a stalling tactic, an act of retribution, the genuine possibility of transition assistance for some, and a large political and substantive gamble: Brian Beutler on how Obama’s remedy is a justified comeuppance for carriers who defaulted beneficiaries into obscenely expensive plans, which they characterized as “comparable” to the canceled coverage, without apprising them of their options, and blamed the whole disruption on Obamacare. Jonathan Chait on how “the shorthand explanation for what’s going on here is that everybody — the insurance companies, members of Congress, and Obama — is bullshitting”. It’s a trap: Josh Barro on the real government takeover of health care.
