The Plum Line / Greg Sargent

yesterday... Anthony Weiner's rant captures Dem impotence — Everybody is talking about Anthony Weiner's high-octane rant on the House floor last night, in which he fulminated over Republican opposition to a bill that would have spent billions on health care for people sickened by the smoke and debris from 9/11:

TPMDC / VIDEO Jillian Rayfield

yesterday... Anthony Weiner's Spitting Mad Rant Against Republicans On The House Floor VIDEO Jillian Rayfield/TPMDC — The House was debating a bill last night that would provide up to $7.4 billion in health care aid to rescue and recovery workers who have faced health problems since their work in the wake of the September 11 attacks.

New York Times / Kevin Sack

earlier... Texas Battles Health Law Even as It Follows It — AUSTIN, Tex. — There are more uninsured residents of Texas — 6.1 million and counting — than there are people in 33 states. The state's elected officials might be expected, therefore, to cheer a federal health care law that is likely …

New York Times / Sarah Lyall

earlier... Britain Plans to Decentralize National Health Care — LONDON — Perhaps the only consistent thing about Britain's socialized health care system is that it is in a perpetual state of flux, its structure constantly changing as governments search for the elusive formula that will deliver …

TPMDC / Brian Beutler

earlier... Hidden Danger: How The GOP Could Kill Health Reform Without Repealing It — For all the GOP chest puffing about reversing the new health care law, a full repeal, to put it generously, is a long-term project. Even if they retake the House in November, they almost certainly won't retake the Senate.

ABCNEWS / Rich Blake

earlier... Secret Gold Coin Tax Embedded in Health Bill — Amendment Slipped Into Health Care Legislation Would Track, Tax Coin and Bullion Transactions — Those already outraged by the president's health care legislation now have a new bone of contention — a scarcely noticed tack-on provision …

New York Times / Reed Abelson

earlier... Insurers Push Plans That Limit Choices of Doctors — As the Obama administration begins to enact the new national health care law, the country's biggest insurers are promoting affordable plans with reduced premiums that require participants to use a narrower selection of doctors or hospitals.

The Politico / Jennifer Haberkorn

yesterday... Democrats race Republican Party to health 'repeal' — For the first time, House Democrats are proposing repealing a piece of the health care overhaul, one that small businesses have been warning is going to be overly burdensome. — The move comes just four months after the Democrats' health plan passed in March.

The Note

yesterday... Medicare Goes Mayberry: Andy Griffith Sells Health Reform Law — ABC's Z. Byron Wolf reports: — Andy Griffith is the new pitch man for the new health care law, promising seniors their benefits will not be cut. The 84 year-old TV icon appears in a video produced by HHS, posted online and set to air on cable TV.

Washington Post / David S. Hilzenrath

earlier... Poll shows opposition to health care overhaul declining — Opposition to the landmark health care overhaul declined over the past month, to 35 percent from 41 percent, according to the latest results of a tracking poll, reported Thursday. — Fifty percent of the public held a favorable view of the law …

Hotline On Call / Dan Roem

earlier... Health Care Law Has Wamp Hoping Against Secession — Rep. Zach Wamp (R-03) suggested TN and other states may have to consider seceding from the union if the federal government does not change its ways regarding mandates. — “I hope that the American people will go to the ballot box in 2010 …

Washington Post / Noam N. Leavy

earlier... Liberals try to bring back public option for health care, citing potential savings — WASHINGTON - At a time when both political parties are worrying about the federal deficit, an unexpected and unorthodox proposal is coming back from the shadows of last year's health-care debate the “public option.”

Wall Street Journal

earlier... Americans Cut Back on Visits to Doctor — Insured Americans are using fewer medical services, raising questions about whether patients are consuming less health care as they pick up a greater share of the costs. — The drop in usage is showing up as health-care companies report financial results.

Power Line / Scott

earlier... Lewis, Carson, Cleaver and the phantom n-word — Yesterday the New York Times ran an ambiguous correction of Times reporter Matt Bai's assertion that Tea Party protesters had abused Rep. John Lewis with “epithets” during the Obamacare protest on Capitol Hill on March 20. What was Mr. Times saying?

Power Line / John

earlier... A Very Partial Correction — We have been waiting for liberal media sources to correct their many misstatements about the events of March 20, when three Democratic Congressmen falsely claimed that protesters against Obamacare at the Capitol yelled racial epithets at them.

AmSpecBlog / Philip Klein

earlier... Reid to Netroots: "We're Going To Have a Public Option" — LAS VEGAS — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, seeking to console liberal activists who were disappointed by the final version of the national health care law, assured them that there would eventually be a public option.

Wall Street Journal / James Taranto

earlier... 'A Commandeering of the People' — One of America's leading libertarian legal scholars handicaps whether the Supreme Court will find ObamaCare's insurance mandate constitutional. — Is ObamaCare constitutional? “If you ask any constitutional law professor whether Congress can do something …

Washington Post / Charles Krauthammer

earlier... Beware the lame duck — Barack Obama's considerable political capital, earned on Election Day 2008, is spent. Well spent, mind you, on the enactment of a highly ideological agenda of Obamacare, financial reform and a near-trillion-dollar stimulus that will significantly transform the country.

Wall Street Journal

earlier... Why the ObamaCare Tax Penalty Is Unconstitutional — The federal power to tax is not unlimited, as the Supreme Court recognized when it struck down the first national income tax. — The Justice Department announced last week that it would defend the new federal health-insurance mandate …

Hot Air / Allahpundit

earlier... Surprise: Obama sends Berwick nomination to Senate — I'm honestly shocked. Wasn't the whole point of the recess appointment to avoid questions in a high-profile forum about Berwick's fondness for NHS's rationing authority and his views of health care as redistribution?

Wall Street Journal

earlier... Lost in Taxation - The IRS's vast new ObamaCare powers. — The IRS's vast new ObamaCare powers. — If it seems as if the tax code was conceived by graphic artist M.C. Escher, wait until you meet the new and not improved Internal Revenue Service created by ObamaCare. What, you're not already on a first-name basis with your local IRS agent?

Wall Street Journal

earlier... About That Financial Reform 'Victory' — Dodd-Frank may backfire on Democrats. — “President Obama Signs Historic Stimulus Bill”—Rocky Mountain News, Feb. 17, 2009 — “Obama Signs Historic Health Care Legislation”—NPR, March 23, 2010 — “Senate Poised to Pass Historic Financial Reform”—McClatchy, July 12, 1010