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California’s High-Tax, Big-Government Comedown

Anyone who has ever watched Animal Planet should be familiar with migrations. Geese do it, wildebeests and whales do it, turtles do it and, yes, people do it too. To migrate is a natural phenomenon. What’s interesting about most migrations is their purposes are generally positive: sex, food, sun and ...
Commentary

Health Costs Resume Their Rise

America’s health cost crisis is no longer in remission. Last week, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) announced that healthcare spending had risen 9.9 percent in the first quarter of 2014 — the largest quarterly increase in more than 30 years. The BEA’s estimate comes on the ...
California

Teachers Union Cheers Victory Over Poor Latino Childern

During a 1954 congressional hearing, U.S. Army counsel Joseph Welch famously asked Senator Joseph McCarthy, “Have you no sense of decency?” The same question may be asked of the California Federation of Teachers (CFT), which featured a splashy cover photo and story on its February/March magazine that celebrated the defeat ...
Commentary

ACA’s unaffordable consequences

Congress’s bean-counters have rendered their verdict on Obamacare’s economic impact – and it’s not good for the president. According to a Congressional Budget Office report released last month, the president’s health care law will reduce the number of hours Americans work by 1.5 to 2 percent – the equivalent of ...
Commentary

Not working just won’t work

Congress’s bean-counters have rendered their verdict on Obamacare’s economic impact — and it’s not good for the president. According to a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report, the president’s healthcare law will reduce the number of hours Americans work by 1.5 percent to 2 percent — the equivalent of 2.5 ...
Commentary

Senate GOP Health Reform Plan Has Room For Improvement — But Still Better Than Obamacare

In his recent State of the Union address, President Obama threw down a gauntlet for Republicans opposed to his health reform law. “If you have specific plans to cut costs, cover more people, increase choice, tell America what you’d do differently,” he said. “Let’s see if the numbers add up.” ...
Commentary

It’s Not Just Healthcare.gov: Obamacare Has A Serious Age Discrimination Problem

The Obama Administration is desperate to get young people to sign up for health insurance under the federal healthcare reform law. So they’ve enlisted a team of almost universally trusted spokespeople to lobby the youth of America — their mothers. One ad from the Obama-allied group Organizing for Action encourages ...
Commentary

Obamacare Is In Serious Trouble, And Obama’s Subsidies Are Worth Refusing

President Obama and his signature legislative accomplishment — Obamacare — are in deep trouble. The health insurance exchanges established by the law aren’t working properly; it now appears that the federally operated HealthCare.gov will not be fixed by November 30, as the president promised. Millions of Americans are irate that ...
Commentary

Move to save Medicaid money endangers lives

A particularly brutal kind of medical rationing is coming to Oregon. As of Oct. 1, Oregon’s Medicaid program stopped covering major medical interventions for patients assessed as having two years or less to live. Not only is the move immoral, it’s likely illegal. This coverage restriction comes courtesy of the ...
Commentary

ObamaCare Unraveling And It Only Gets Worse In 2014

With ObamaCare’s health insurance exchanges unraveling — especially HealthCare.gov, the federally run portal for the 36 states that decided not to set up their own exchanges — it’s safe to say that the president’s effort to expand coverage isn’t going well. It’s about to get worse. Once the calendar flips ...
Business & Economics

California’s High-Tax, Big-Government Comedown

Anyone who has ever watched Animal Planet should be familiar with migrations. Geese do it, wildebeests and whales do it, turtles do it and, yes, people do it too. To migrate is a natural phenomenon. What’s interesting about most migrations is their purposes are generally positive: sex, food, sun and ...
Commentary

Health Costs Resume Their Rise

America’s health cost crisis is no longer in remission. Last week, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) announced that healthcare spending had risen 9.9 percent in the first quarter of 2014 — the largest quarterly increase in more than 30 years. The BEA’s estimate comes on the ...
California

Teachers Union Cheers Victory Over Poor Latino Childern

During a 1954 congressional hearing, U.S. Army counsel Joseph Welch famously asked Senator Joseph McCarthy, “Have you no sense of decency?” The same question may be asked of the California Federation of Teachers (CFT), which featured a splashy cover photo and story on its February/March magazine that celebrated the defeat ...
Commentary

ACA’s unaffordable consequences

Congress’s bean-counters have rendered their verdict on Obamacare’s economic impact – and it’s not good for the president. According to a Congressional Budget Office report released last month, the president’s health care law will reduce the number of hours Americans work by 1.5 to 2 percent – the equivalent of ...
Commentary

Not working just won’t work

Congress’s bean-counters have rendered their verdict on Obamacare’s economic impact — and it’s not good for the president. According to a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report, the president’s healthcare law will reduce the number of hours Americans work by 1.5 percent to 2 percent — the equivalent of 2.5 ...
Commentary

Senate GOP Health Reform Plan Has Room For Improvement — But Still Better Than Obamacare

In his recent State of the Union address, President Obama threw down a gauntlet for Republicans opposed to his health reform law. “If you have specific plans to cut costs, cover more people, increase choice, tell America what you’d do differently,” he said. “Let’s see if the numbers add up.” ...
Commentary

It’s Not Just Healthcare.gov: Obamacare Has A Serious Age Discrimination Problem

The Obama Administration is desperate to get young people to sign up for health insurance under the federal healthcare reform law. So they’ve enlisted a team of almost universally trusted spokespeople to lobby the youth of America — their mothers. One ad from the Obama-allied group Organizing for Action encourages ...
Commentary

Obamacare Is In Serious Trouble, And Obama’s Subsidies Are Worth Refusing

President Obama and his signature legislative accomplishment — Obamacare — are in deep trouble. The health insurance exchanges established by the law aren’t working properly; it now appears that the federally operated HealthCare.gov will not be fixed by November 30, as the president promised. Millions of Americans are irate that ...
Commentary

Move to save Medicaid money endangers lives

A particularly brutal kind of medical rationing is coming to Oregon. As of Oct. 1, Oregon’s Medicaid program stopped covering major medical interventions for patients assessed as having two years or less to live. Not only is the move immoral, it’s likely illegal. This coverage restriction comes courtesy of the ...
Commentary

ObamaCare Unraveling And It Only Gets Worse In 2014

With ObamaCare’s health insurance exchanges unraveling — especially HealthCare.gov, the federally run portal for the 36 states that decided not to set up their own exchanges — it’s safe to say that the president’s effort to expand coverage isn’t going well. It’s about to get worse. Once the calendar flips ...
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