Congress Raises Taxes on Poor to Pay for Health Care … Again
Throughout his campaign, President Barack Obama repeatedly promised the American people: “If you’re a family that’s making $250,000 a year or less you will see… Read More
Throughout his campaign, President Barack Obama repeatedly promised the American people: “If you’re a family that’s making $250,000 a year or less you will see… Read More
Controversial Princeton bioethics professor and philosopher Peter Singer is making waves with his article outlining the case for rationing in last week’s New York Times… Read More
This past Friday on MSNBC, Center for American Progress researcher Igor Volsky told MSNBC “the House bill is deficit-neutral over ten years” This is flat-out… Read More
This weekend President Obama dedicated his weekly address to defending Congress’s plans for an overhaul of the nation’s health care system. He argued, “Once you’ve… Read More
President Obama just got turned down by America’s governors. Obama wanted governors to endorse his proposed overhaul of health care, but ran into opposition over… Read More
Much of the controversy in President Obama and congressional Democrats’ health care overhaul thus far has focused on the public option and concerns with the… Read More
The recent letter to Congressman Rangel from the AMA in appreciation and support for H.R. 3200, the “America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009” is… Read More
Republicans in Congress are making yet another major attempt to reform the health care system, going in a very different direction from the expensive health… Read More
President Obama’s health care takeover will not just force most Americans into a government-run insurance plan, it will also give us European-style tax rates. Actually,… Read More
Senator Harry Reid (D-NV), Senate majority leader, wants to rush the Senate health care legislation through the process by July 27, 2009. It’s not hard… Read More
President Obama and his liberal counterparts in the Congress continue to falsely promise that their health care plan wouldn’t affect Americans who don’t crave change…. Read More
This chart was released yesterday by the U.S. House Republican Conference to demonstrate their view of a government run health care system.
A Boston Globe headline today reads Boston Medical sues state for funds. Replace “Boston Medical” with “Local Hospital X” and “state” with “federal government,” and… Read More
Investor’s Business Daily writes: It didn’t take long to run into an “uh-oh” moment when reading the House’s “health care for all Americans” bill. Right… Read More
The gripping health care reform drama unfolding on Capitol Hill has a surprising ending—Medicaid dies. At least Medicaid as you have come to know it…. Read More
This Pajamas TV video is on the longer side, but it’s a must-see for those following the health care debate. Watch as Steven Crowder goes… Read More
Commenting on the delayed start to the House’s health bill spending, The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein writes: “The slow start is a way of holding… Read More
At last night’s All Star game, President Barack Obama told Joe Buck that the federal government couldn’t bailout the National League because “we’re out of… Read More
Under increasing pressure to find unconventional ways to pay for the cost of health reform (which was supposed to save money for American families), the… Read More
President Obama has repeatedly claimed that his health care reforms also represent entitlement reform. Not surprisingly, the Congressional Budget Office shows this claim implausible. They… Read More
House Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel announced that a surtax on individuals and families above a certain income level would be used to pay… Read More
As Congress debates health care reform and how to pay for it, the Congressional Budget Office reported today on something that economists have long known:… Read More
Transformers aren’t only in the movies and toy stores; they’re a fact of life in the U.S. Congress as well. And we should beware of… Read More
President Barack Obama’s push for government-run health care has proceeded in three separate phases… and we’re just entering the last. Phase One: Fantasy Football. The… Read More
The Waxman-Markey energy tax plan will have all sorts of unwanted side effects. As the healthcare debate ramps up, it’s worth noting problems misguided global… Read More
On July 2, 2009, the Congressional Budget Office produced its second preliminary analysis of title I of the “Affordable Health Choices Act,” as drafted by… Read More
So what would happen to you if President Barack Obama succeeds in passing a health care bill that includes a public option? Law professor Hugh… Read More
As Congress tries to push through health care reform at a rapid speed and publicize so-called deals with several health industry groups (most recently with… Read More
What has been going on in the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee for the past three weeks? Unless you’ve been carefully watching… Read More
Last Sunday, in an appearance on FOX News Sunday with Chris Wallace, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) repeated yet another justification for including a… Read More
