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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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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.” ...
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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 ...
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Half-Time Report

This was evident right away, when Sen. Mitch McConnell handed the floor over to Sen. Lamar Alexander for opening Republican remarks — apparently without the president’s prior knowledge or permission — and Alexander, a former governor and presidential candidate, proceeded to look the president directly in the eye, at eye-level, ...
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Health Care Summit: Pipes sees no lasting impact

Washington D.C. Examiner, February 25, 2010 To the surprise of virtually no one, President Obama’s health reform summit did little to change the course of the healthcare debate. Although the president claimed that he was interested in incorporating Republican ideas into his reform plan, he acknowledged that he didn’t know ...
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It’s Summit Day in Washington

Of course, there will be no grand reopening, no joyful children, and no bands, just the same old Obamacare — which is not something Americans would get to choose whether to buy so much as it would be forced down their throats by any means possible, including via “budget reconciliation” ...
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Starting Over on Health Reform

President Obama has signaled that he’d be willing to work with Republicans if they could build on their shared goals for reform, like reducing insurance premiums. Such a spirit of compromise is desperately needed, as lawmakers from both parties must forge a more prudent course in pursuit of health reform. ...
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Starting Over on Health Care Reform

State House Call, February 10, 2010 President Obama has signaled that he’d be willing to work with Republicans if they could build on their shared goals for reform, like reducing insurance premiums. Such a spirit of compromise is desperately needed, as lawmakers from both parties must forge a more prudent ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.” ...
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 ...
Commentary

Half-Time Report

This was evident right away, when Sen. Mitch McConnell handed the floor over to Sen. Lamar Alexander for opening Republican remarks — apparently without the president’s prior knowledge or permission — and Alexander, a former governor and presidential candidate, proceeded to look the president directly in the eye, at eye-level, ...
Commentary

Health Care Summit: Pipes sees no lasting impact

Washington D.C. Examiner, February 25, 2010 To the surprise of virtually no one, President Obama’s health reform summit did little to change the course of the healthcare debate. Although the president claimed that he was interested in incorporating Republican ideas into his reform plan, he acknowledged that he didn’t know ...
Commentary

It’s Summit Day in Washington

Of course, there will be no grand reopening, no joyful children, and no bands, just the same old Obamacare — which is not something Americans would get to choose whether to buy so much as it would be forced down their throats by any means possible, including via “budget reconciliation” ...
Commentary

Starting Over on Health Reform

President Obama has signaled that he’d be willing to work with Republicans if they could build on their shared goals for reform, like reducing insurance premiums. Such a spirit of compromise is desperately needed, as lawmakers from both parties must forge a more prudent course in pursuit of health reform. ...
Commentary

Starting Over on Health Care Reform

State House Call, February 10, 2010 President Obama has signaled that he’d be willing to work with Republicans if they could build on their shared goals for reform, like reducing insurance premiums. Such a spirit of compromise is desperately needed, as lawmakers from both parties must forge a more prudent ...
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