Health Care
Commentary
Health care reform too costly for critic
John R. Graham, the director of health care studies for San Francisco’s Pacific Research Institute, has been a critic of the national health overhaul law – not surprising, considering the institute is a free-market think tank. Graham answered three questions posed by reporter Victoria Colliver. Q: What are some of ...
Commentary
Further down road to serfdom
With health care reform now the law of the land, congressional Democrats were in full celebration mode. Unfortunately, ordinary Americans don’t have much reason to rejoice. Not only will the law deprive patients and taxpayers of ever greater amounts of cash, it will also rob them of much of their ...
Agriculture
Enviros trade in human misery
SACRAMENTO – One of the most unusual vote-buying scams the Obama administration may have used to pass its health care socialization plan was an alleged promise to two Democratic congressmen to increase federal water supplies to the San Joaquin Valley. It’s the nation’s most fertile farm region, but a region ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Health Care
What the Congressional Budget Office Doesn’t Score: More Than $6.5 Billion Annual State Revenue at Risk from Federal Health “Reform”
Key Points State revenues in 2008 included an estimated $6.5 billion in revenues from premium taxes levied on health insurance. The federal takeover of health insurance will lure 15 million more people into Medicaid, and nine million into federally licensed “exchanges” from state-regulated health insurance. The “reform” will reduce states’ ...
California
California stands to gain most from health bill
The stakes are high for Californians when it comes to the health care overhaul, mainly because the coverage problems in this vast state are so large. With a new UCLA study estimating that more than 8 million Californians, or nearly 25 percent of the population, lack health coverage, many health ...
Health Care
What CBO Doesn’t Score: Over $6.5 Billion Annual State Revenue At Risk
Now that Congress has reached the “end of the beginning” of the federal take-over of people’s access to medical services, please allow me to point out a cost that Congress has ignored. According the the CBO’s score of the Senate health “reform,” H.R. 3590, the bill would insure 31 million ...
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 ...
Health care reform too costly for critic
John R. Graham, the director of health care studies for San Francisco’s Pacific Research Institute, has been a critic of the national health overhaul law – not surprising, considering the institute is a free-market think tank. Graham answered three questions posed by reporter Victoria Colliver. Q: What are some of ...
Further down road to serfdom
With health care reform now the law of the land, congressional Democrats were in full celebration mode. Unfortunately, ordinary Americans don’t have much reason to rejoice. Not only will the law deprive patients and taxpayers of ever greater amounts of cash, it will also rob them of much of their ...
Enviros trade in human misery
SACRAMENTO – One of the most unusual vote-buying scams the Obama administration may have used to pass its health care socialization plan was an alleged promise to two Democratic congressmen to increase federal water supplies to the San Joaquin Valley. It’s the nation’s most fertile farm region, but a region ...
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 ...
What the Congressional Budget Office Doesn’t Score: More Than $6.5 Billion Annual State Revenue at Risk from Federal Health “Reform”
Key Points State revenues in 2008 included an estimated $6.5 billion in revenues from premium taxes levied on health insurance. The federal takeover of health insurance will lure 15 million more people into Medicaid, and nine million into federally licensed “exchanges” from state-regulated health insurance. The “reform” will reduce states’ ...
California stands to gain most from health bill
The stakes are high for Californians when it comes to the health care overhaul, mainly because the coverage problems in this vast state are so large. With a new UCLA study estimating that more than 8 million Californians, or nearly 25 percent of the population, lack health coverage, many health ...
What CBO Doesn’t Score: Over $6.5 Billion Annual State Revenue At Risk
Now that Congress has reached the “end of the beginning” of the federal take-over of people’s access to medical services, please allow me to point out a cost that Congress has ignored. According the the CBO’s score of the Senate health “reform,” H.R. 3590, the bill would insure 31 million ...
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 ...
