It's hard to know what you can do just on your own as a new administration.

What's important to remember politically about this, is if you’re a state and you don’t set up an Exchange, that means your citizens don’t get their tax credits. But your citizens still pay the taxes that support this bill. So you’re essentially saying to your citizens, you’re going to pay all the taxes to help all the other states in the country. I hope that’s a blatant enough political reality that states will get their act together and realize there are billions of dollars at stake here in setting up these Exchanges, and that they’ll do it. But you know, once again, the politics can get ugly around this.

The typical American voter is so stupid, his dog teaches him tricks.

Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. Call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically, that was really, really critical for the thing to pass.

Ultimately, what may be needed to address the obesity problem are direct taxes on body weight.

When we're done with employer-based health insurance, it will have as much life in it as Jimmy Hoffa.

Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage.