Health Care
Commentary
State Sovereignty Resolutions: The NY Times Weighs In
According to the New York Times, legislators sponsoring these resolutions are merely carrying water for various corporate interests in the health sector. Conspiratorially, the NY Times asserts that the idea of state sovereignty over health care popped up at the Goldwater Institute in Arizona, and was then picked up as ...
John R. Graham
December 29, 2009
Health Care
Tales from The Antipodes: When The Government Runs The Hospitals
According to Dr. John R. Graham, MD, who has spent his career at Sydney Hospital, in Australias largest city, things started going down the tubes in 1984, when the federal government crowded out financing of hospitals by private payers. According to Dr. Graham,
the record of the last 25 years ...
John R. Graham
December 28, 2009
Commentary
It’s not about health care reform
The current legislation being presented in Congress is not about health care reform or health insurance reform. The only purpose is to increase the federal government’s power and control over American citizens. Many of the people supporting the legislation are doing so simply because they support the president and believe ...
Jim Sykes
December 28, 2009
Health Care
On Christmas Eve, Democrats Push Health Care Plan Through Senate
Health Care News (Heartland Institute), December 24, 2009 In the early hours of Christmas Eve on Capitol Hill, Democrats in the Senate pushed through a massive reform of health care in America on a party-line vote. Passed by a 60-39 margin, the plan includes an individual mandate to purchase health ...
Ben Domenech
December 24, 2009
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
Health reform: Pluses, minuses
Opinionline: What people are saying about health debate The New York Times, in an editorial: “The health care reform bill that Senate Democratic leaders have cobbled together to win support from all 60 members, … has drawn scornful attacks from a united Republican opposition. … The bill … has some ...
Pacific Research Institute
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
Health Care Legislation Turns Medicare Into Slush Fund
President Obama has repeatedly pledged never to sign any proposal that would add one dime to the federal deficit, yet he and Congress are finding it impossible to cover millions of uninsured Americans without increasing deficit spending or taking the money from the current Medicare system. Finding money to achieve ...
Thomas Cheplick
December 23, 2009
State Sovereignty Resolutions: The NY Times Weighs In
According to the New York Times, legislators sponsoring these resolutions are merely carrying water for various corporate interests in the health sector. Conspiratorially, the NY Times asserts that the idea of state sovereignty over health care popped up at the Goldwater Institute in Arizona, and was then picked up as ...
Tales from The Antipodes: When The Government Runs The Hospitals
According to Dr. John R. Graham, MD, who has spent his career at Sydney Hospital, in Australias largest city, things started going down the tubes in 1984, when the federal government crowded out financing of hospitals by private payers. According to Dr. Graham,
the record of the last 25 years ...
It’s not about health care reform
The current legislation being presented in Congress is not about health care reform or health insurance reform. The only purpose is to increase the federal government’s power and control over American citizens. Many of the people supporting the legislation are doing so simply because they support the president and believe ...
On Christmas Eve, Democrats Push Health Care Plan Through Senate
Health Care News (Heartland Institute), December 24, 2009 In the early hours of Christmas Eve on Capitol Hill, Democrats in the Senate pushed through a massive reform of health care in America on a party-line vote. Passed by a 60-39 margin, the plan includes an individual mandate to purchase health ...
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 ...
Health reform: Pluses, minuses
Opinionline: What people are saying about health debate The New York Times, in an editorial: “The health care reform bill that Senate Democratic leaders have cobbled together to win support from all 60 members, … has drawn scornful attacks from a united Republican opposition. … The bill … has some ...
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 ...
Health Care Legislation Turns Medicare Into Slush Fund
President Obama has repeatedly pledged never to sign any proposal that would add one dime to the federal deficit, yet he and Congress are finding it impossible to cover millions of uninsured Americans without increasing deficit spending or taking the money from the current Medicare system. Finding money to achieve ...