Obamacare
Commentary
Time For Some To Slip Noose Of ObamaCare
It’s painfully obvious the American people don’t want ObamaCare and equally obvious that the Democrats, especially President Obama, don’t particularly care. The Democrats feel inoculated against voter dissatisfaction because they’ve bought into their own wishful narrative: that voters punished them in 1994 because they failed to pass HillaryCare, not because ...
Jeffrey H. Anderson
January 8, 2010
Commentary
Seizing the Initiative
Constituents of those who voted for Stupak and constituents of alleged “Blue Dogs” should flood their offices with helpful reminders of the right way to go (remembering that the key is the quantity of letters, not the quality since the member only hears the tallies and won’t ...
Jeffrey H. Anderson
January 6, 2010
Commentary
Obamacare’s Three Major Hurdles
The Democrats are determined to expand the federal governments portfolio beyond the Post Office, Amtrak, and General Motors, by adding the entire health-care industry to its holdings. But before they can subject what will soon be one-fifth of our economy to the federal governments command-and-control model, Democrats must clear three ...
Jeffrey H. Anderson
January 6, 2010
Commentary
Advantage Cronyism
If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, at least if you pay cash. One of the many problems with funneling our nation’s health-care system through our nation’s political system is that it would politicize health care. The health-care bill that recently passed the Senate ...
Jeffrey H. Anderson
January 5, 2010
Commentary
Conservative Alternatives to ObamaCare
(Sue Lowden) Rather than crippling our nation with higher debt and higher taxes to fund government-run health care, I have called for solutions that can begin to drive down the cost of health insurance, thus making it more accessible to those who do not have coverage today. First, Congress ...
Sue Lowden
December 24, 2009
Commentary
Now Is the Time to Fight
However, from the start of Christmas week, the important and interesting question was not whether the Senate would pass its bill (that was a foregone conclusion once Ben Nelson yielded to party pressure and waived his abortion objections in exchange for a nice helping of pork). It was whether those ...
Jeffrey H. Anderson
December 24, 2009
Commentary
Democrats in Fantasyland on Health Care Reform
While Harry Reid, the Scrooge of the Senate, forces a health care vote on December 24, Americans are commencing their Christmas celebrations. Across the continent from Washington, one popular destination, Disneyland, is decorated with Christmas splendor in anticipation of hundreds of thousands of people visiting it over the holidays. There ...
Jeffrey H. Anderson
December 24, 2009
Commentary
Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Obamacare
Obamacare would require Americans to buy government-approved health insurance. It would make it illegal to offer choices in insurance plans beyond the handful of very similar ones that the government would allow. It would become illegal to offer new and innovative plans. Under any of the government-approved plans, it would ...
Jeffrey H. Anderson
December 23, 2009
Commentary
The Senator Who Stole Christmas
One can understand their desire to wrap Obamacare up with a nice little Senate bow by Christmas Day. After all, the Senate bill would start (in any meaningful way) by around Christmas Christmas future, that is. The Congressional Budget Office says that less than 2 percent of the bill’s ...
Jeffrey H. Anderson
December 20, 2009
Commentary
Media Parade as ObamaCare Hangs in the Balance
The hour-by-hour drama of the Democrats’ attempt to secure 60 votes in the Senate to advance their health care agenda is gripping the nation. Is Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) in? Or is he out? And what about Ben Nelson (D-NE)? While Lieberman is rightly accused of flip-flopping on the issue of ...
Roger Aronoff
December 18, 2009
Time For Some To Slip Noose Of ObamaCare
It’s painfully obvious the American people don’t want ObamaCare and equally obvious that the Democrats, especially President Obama, don’t particularly care. The Democrats feel inoculated against voter dissatisfaction because they’ve bought into their own wishful narrative: that voters punished them in 1994 because they failed to pass HillaryCare, not because ...
Seizing the Initiative
Constituents of those who voted for Stupak and constituents of alleged “Blue Dogs” should flood their offices with helpful reminders of the right way to go (remembering that the key is the quantity of letters, not the quality since the member only hears the tallies and won’t ...
Obamacare’s Three Major Hurdles
The Democrats are determined to expand the federal governments portfolio beyond the Post Office, Amtrak, and General Motors, by adding the entire health-care industry to its holdings. But before they can subject what will soon be one-fifth of our economy to the federal governments command-and-control model, Democrats must clear three ...
Advantage Cronyism
If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, at least if you pay cash. One of the many problems with funneling our nation’s health-care system through our nation’s political system is that it would politicize health care. The health-care bill that recently passed the Senate ...
Conservative Alternatives to ObamaCare
(Sue Lowden) Rather than crippling our nation with higher debt and higher taxes to fund government-run health care, I have called for solutions that can begin to drive down the cost of health insurance, thus making it more accessible to those who do not have coverage today. First, Congress ...
Now Is the Time to Fight
However, from the start of Christmas week, the important and interesting question was not whether the Senate would pass its bill (that was a foregone conclusion once Ben Nelson yielded to party pressure and waived his abortion objections in exchange for a nice helping of pork). It was whether those ...
Democrats in Fantasyland on Health Care Reform
While Harry Reid, the Scrooge of the Senate, forces a health care vote on December 24, Americans are commencing their Christmas celebrations. Across the continent from Washington, one popular destination, Disneyland, is decorated with Christmas splendor in anticipation of hundreds of thousands of people visiting it over the holidays. There ...
Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Obamacare
Obamacare would require Americans to buy government-approved health insurance. It would make it illegal to offer choices in insurance plans beyond the handful of very similar ones that the government would allow. It would become illegal to offer new and innovative plans. Under any of the government-approved plans, it would ...
The Senator Who Stole Christmas
One can understand their desire to wrap Obamacare up with a nice little Senate bow by Christmas Day. After all, the Senate bill would start (in any meaningful way) by around Christmas Christmas future, that is. The Congressional Budget Office says that less than 2 percent of the bill’s ...
Media Parade as ObamaCare Hangs in the Balance
The hour-by-hour drama of the Democrats’ attempt to secure 60 votes in the Senate to advance their health care agenda is gripping the nation. Is Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) in? Or is he out? And what about Ben Nelson (D-NE)? While Lieberman is rightly accused of flip-flopping on the issue of ...