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Dr. Merrill Matthews, IPI resident scholar, tells OneNewsNow that John Roberts saved the president's "bacon" by siding with the four liberal justices and upholding most of ObamaCare, including the individual mandate, as constitutional under Congress' taxing powers.

The fallout from the Supreme Court’s split decision this week on Arizona’s tough immigration law could give GOP nominee Mitt Romney and his party a fresh opportunity to reframe the immigration debate and cut into President Obama’s huge lead among Hispanic voters, Merrill Matthews tells Washington Times reporter Ralph Hallow.

There are many ironies in the furor around the individual mandate, writes Ezra Klein in the Washington Post. One is that there is no better deal in the legislation — and there has perhaps never been a better deal in the individual health-care market — than to go without insurance and pay the mandate’s penalty.

Mobile apps, with their extraordinary reach, have the power to transform health care. IPI's Merrill Matthews is cited by reporter Dina ElBoghdady in the Washington Post and Chicago Tribune on the classic showdown occuring between Washington regulators charged with safeguarding the public's health and a freewheeling tech industry that prizes agility and first-to-market bragging rights.

Conservative organizations sprung to the defense of Verizon Wireless’ latest deal to acquire unused spectrum from several leading cable providers pending before the Federal Communications Commission Friday, writes Josh Peterson of the Daily Caller.

Fox Business columnist Gail Buckner interviews IPI president Tom Giovanetti on why "millionaire's taxes" don't increase revenues.

White House IP czar Victoria Espinel cites a 2007 IPI study stating that intellectual property theft costs the U.S. about $58 billion per year. The Hollywood Reporter's Stephen Galloway says the figure comes from a source that would astonish Hollywood liberals.

Citing IPI's 2007 copyright piracy study, reporter Nathan Taft of NextGen Journal evaluates recent policy approaches to help fight online piracy. The methods by which piracy should be regulated is a clear point of contention, he writes.

The latest Massachusetts request for a Medicaid waiver renewal from the federal government assumes Safety Net Hospitals will significantly reduce costs for the state’s Medicaid program. Unfortunately, no new methods for such cost reductions are specified in the waiver request, reports Loren Heal of Heartland's Health Care News.

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius recently announced the health insurance premium rate increases proposed for five states by Trustmark Life Insurance Company were “unreasonable," reports Marc Kilmer in The Heartlander.