Obamacare
Commentary
Reform Repeal Is Just Child’s Play
Repeal: Some say trying to repeal ObamaCare is a futile dream once people get used to its benefits, such as covering kids with pre-existing conditions. Once before, government was slapped down. It can be done. Entitlements can be addictive, and it’s certainly the purpose of this administration to make as ...
Pacific Research Institute
March 25, 2010
Health Care
Repeal Means Repeal
Sen. Jon Kyl said, “I would guess probably more realistically would be a potential repeal of pieces of the bill.” It lights the fire in the belly, doesn’t it?Sens. Mike Enzi and John Cornyn followed suit. On MSNBC, Rudy Giuliani, said, “You just laid out how the Republicans should run ...
Jeffrey H. Anderson
March 24, 2010
Commentary
Repeal Of Bill, All Or In Part, Is Problematic
It’s springtime, and with the enactment of the Obama-Pelosi-Reid health care monstrosity, repeal is in the air. And why not? Supported by substantial popular majorities now energized as never before, congressional Republicans opposed the legislation unanimously, and the polls point unambiguously to substantial gains for the GOP this November. And ...
Benjamin Zycher
March 24, 2010
Commentary
Obamacare wins: Now the pain begins
With the passage of the health “reform” bill, President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have ensured that the American economy and America’s household economics are in for a rough decade. Liberals are hailing the vote as historic, and indeed it was — a blunder ...
Sally C. Pipes
March 22, 2010
Health Care
The Battle Is Lost, and the War Has Begun
Unlike past threats to the American way of life, this time the threat comes from within. Lincoln warned us that this would be so: All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa . . . , with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from ...
Jeffrey H. Anderson
March 22, 2010
Commentary
What Now?
With the Democrats’ health-care legislation having cleared the last legislative hurdle, it is all but inevitable that President Obama will be signing it into law. Is this the end of the road for the debate, or is there a way forward for real reform that puts decisions into the hands ...
Pacific Research Institute
March 21, 2010
Health Care
They Still Don’t Have the Votes
In turn, Pelosi either decided that by accepting the language, she would lose more votes in the House than she would gain, or else knew that Democratic senators, with their strong preference for taxpayer-funded abortion, would never go along with this concession to the views of the vast majority of ...
Jeffrey H. Anderson
March 20, 2010
Commentary
Massachusetts’ ‘reform’ mess
Federal lawmakers pondering how to vote on Obama-Care this week should notice that Massachusetts is back asking Washington for hundreds of millions more to bail out its universal health-coverage system. When it became law in 2006, the Bay State’s plan was supposed to fix everything — with much the same ...
Sally C. Pipes
March 16, 2010
Commentary
ObamaCare vs The 57
With perhaps a third of practicing physicians threatening to “Go Galt” should ObamaCare pass, it’s easy to overlook another potentially devastating effect of this monstrosity: ” Nevada, Hawaii, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Georgia will see significant reductions in dollars available to fund Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Programs.” ...
Heather Kays
March 15, 2010
Commentary
Dem And Voter Differences Are Irreconcilable
Investor’s Business Daily, March 8, 2010 During his 35th speech on health care at the White House last Wednesday, President Obama called on Congress to give his reform package an “up-or-down vote” before the Easter recess, with or without Republican support. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry ...
Sally C. Pipes
March 8, 2010
Reform Repeal Is Just Child’s Play
Repeal: Some say trying to repeal ObamaCare is a futile dream once people get used to its benefits, such as covering kids with pre-existing conditions. Once before, government was slapped down. It can be done. Entitlements can be addictive, and it’s certainly the purpose of this administration to make as ...
Repeal Means Repeal
Sen. Jon Kyl said, “I would guess probably more realistically would be a potential repeal of pieces of the bill.” It lights the fire in the belly, doesn’t it?Sens. Mike Enzi and John Cornyn followed suit. On MSNBC, Rudy Giuliani, said, “You just laid out how the Republicans should run ...
Repeal Of Bill, All Or In Part, Is Problematic
It’s springtime, and with the enactment of the Obama-Pelosi-Reid health care monstrosity, repeal is in the air. And why not? Supported by substantial popular majorities now energized as never before, congressional Republicans opposed the legislation unanimously, and the polls point unambiguously to substantial gains for the GOP this November. And ...
Obamacare wins: Now the pain begins
With the passage of the health “reform” bill, President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have ensured that the American economy and America’s household economics are in for a rough decade. Liberals are hailing the vote as historic, and indeed it was — a blunder ...
The Battle Is Lost, and the War Has Begun
Unlike past threats to the American way of life, this time the threat comes from within. Lincoln warned us that this would be so: All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa . . . , with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from ...
What Now?
With the Democrats’ health-care legislation having cleared the last legislative hurdle, it is all but inevitable that President Obama will be signing it into law. Is this the end of the road for the debate, or is there a way forward for real reform that puts decisions into the hands ...
They Still Don’t Have the Votes
In turn, Pelosi either decided that by accepting the language, she would lose more votes in the House than she would gain, or else knew that Democratic senators, with their strong preference for taxpayer-funded abortion, would never go along with this concession to the views of the vast majority of ...
Massachusetts’ ‘reform’ mess
Federal lawmakers pondering how to vote on Obama-Care this week should notice that Massachusetts is back asking Washington for hundreds of millions more to bail out its universal health-coverage system. When it became law in 2006, the Bay State’s plan was supposed to fix everything — with much the same ...
ObamaCare vs The 57
With perhaps a third of practicing physicians threatening to “Go Galt” should ObamaCare pass, it’s easy to overlook another potentially devastating effect of this monstrosity: ” Nevada, Hawaii, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Georgia will see significant reductions in dollars available to fund Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Programs.” ...
Dem And Voter Differences Are Irreconcilable
Investor’s Business Daily, March 8, 2010 During his 35th speech on health care at the White House last Wednesday, President Obama called on Congress to give his reform package an “up-or-down vote” before the Easter recess, with or without Republican support. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry ...