Health Care Reform
Commentary
The Massachusetts health care mess is coming soon to the rest of America
Devotees of big government, like Archimedes, believe that if they have a long lever and a place to stand, they can move the world. In 2006, a bipartisan band of such politicians in Massachusetts immersed themselves in wishful thinking, ignored both hard facts and proven theory, and used their political ...
Business & Economics
Leave Medical Liability Change To States
By signing health reform into law, President Obama has launched the most sweeping expansion of federal control of Americans’ access to medical services in decades. Republicans charge that the reform package grants the federal government too much power over our health choices. They’re right — but it could have been ...
Commentary
Uncle Sam, MD?
(April 10) — Now that health care reform is the law of the land, state governments will have to start looking for serious ways to control health costs. And one tempting target will be prescription drugs, which account for an increasing share of the nation’s health tab. But one cost-cutting ...
Commentary
Life’s certainties: Death and health reform’s taxes
The Daily Caller, April 6, 2010 President Obama’s health care reform package was just a week old when it started to cost taxpayers more money. By signing the reconciliation bill last Tuesday—the last step in his legislative two-step—the president raised the price of the original health care reform measure by ...
Commentary
USC College Republicans host teach-in
The USC College Republicans hosted a panel discussion Wednesday night focusing on President Barack Obama’s policies and actions regarding the U.S. economy, the recent health care reform bill and the state of the country’s foreign relationships. The “Teach-In to Oppose Obama’s Radical Transformation of America” featured input from Sally Pipes, ...
Business & Economics
A bone to pick with Bartlett on federal spending
Reps. Jeb Hensarling and Mike Pence recently called for a constitutional amendment limiting federal spending “to one-fifth of the economy.” Bruce Bartlett, a former official in the George H.W. Bush administration, promptly denounced the idea as “dopey,” one “terrible… on so many levels that it is hard to know where ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Commentary
CNBC Video: Paying for Health Care
Discussing whether Dems are relying too much on higher taxes to pay for health care reform, with Gov. Howard Dean, former Democratic National Committee chairman; Sally Pipes, Pacific Research and CNBC’s Hampton Pearson.
The Massachusetts health care mess is coming soon to the rest of America
Devotees of big government, like Archimedes, believe that if they have a long lever and a place to stand, they can move the world. In 2006, a bipartisan band of such politicians in Massachusetts immersed themselves in wishful thinking, ignored both hard facts and proven theory, and used their political ...
Leave Medical Liability Change To States
By signing health reform into law, President Obama has launched the most sweeping expansion of federal control of Americans’ access to medical services in decades. Republicans charge that the reform package grants the federal government too much power over our health choices. They’re right — but it could have been ...
Uncle Sam, MD?
(April 10) — Now that health care reform is the law of the land, state governments will have to start looking for serious ways to control health costs. And one tempting target will be prescription drugs, which account for an increasing share of the nation’s health tab. But one cost-cutting ...
Life’s certainties: Death and health reform’s taxes
The Daily Caller, April 6, 2010 President Obama’s health care reform package was just a week old when it started to cost taxpayers more money. By signing the reconciliation bill last Tuesday—the last step in his legislative two-step—the president raised the price of the original health care reform measure by ...
USC College Republicans host teach-in
The USC College Republicans hosted a panel discussion Wednesday night focusing on President Barack Obama’s policies and actions regarding the U.S. economy, the recent health care reform bill and the state of the country’s foreign relationships. The “Teach-In to Oppose Obama’s Radical Transformation of America” featured input from Sally Pipes, ...
A bone to pick with Bartlett on federal spending
Reps. Jeb Hensarling and Mike Pence recently called for a constitutional amendment limiting federal spending “to one-fifth of the economy.” Bruce Bartlett, a former official in the George H.W. Bush administration, promptly denounced the idea as “dopey,” one “terrible… on so many levels that it is hard to know where ...
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 ...
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 ...
CNBC Video: Paying for Health Care
Discussing whether Dems are relying too much on higher taxes to pay for health care reform, with Gov. Howard Dean, former Democratic National Committee chairman; Sally Pipes, Pacific Research and CNBC’s Hampton Pearson.
