Thousands More Oppose Obamacare Mandate’s Religious Liberty Violations
More than 2,500 Christian leaders have signed a letter opposing Obamcare’s anti-conscience mandate. The letter’s release adds to the most recent furor over the rule’s… Read More
Medicare Needs the Life Support of Premium Support
Medicare reform is coming soon; it has to if the program is going to survive. As budget expert J. D. Foster writes, “Medicare reform is… Read More
Side Effects: If You Like Your HSA, Get Ready to Lose It
Everyone remembers President Obama’s repeated promise, “If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period.” Unfortunately, Obamacare… Read More
Morning Bell: Religious Liberty Under Attack
Today is Ash Wednesday — the first day of Lent — the beginning of 40 days of prayer and fasting observed by Christians across the… Read More
Despotism, Thy Name Is Obamacare
Two years ago, everything about Obamacare was in the future. Recall the revealing comment at the time by then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D–CA) that Congress had… Read More
Opposition to Anti-Conscience Mandate Continues
In Obamacare’s collision course with Americans’ freedom, one of the first casualties is religious liberty. Despite the Administration’s obfuscating press comments, the finalized preventive services… Read More
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Turner Lays Out the Case Against Obamacare
Grace-Marie Turner, president of the Galen Institute, was among a number of experts who recently convened at The Heritage Foundation on a panel entitled “Beyond… Read More
Heritage Libertad Radio: Obamacare and Contraception, Budget, More
Be sure to listen to the latest Heritage Libertad Radio program. For the program in English, click here. For the program in Spanish, click here…. Read More
Health Care Expert Sally Pipes on Repealing, Replacing Obamacare
As a Canadian and firsthand witness of Canada’s government-run health care system, Sally Pipes is warning that Obamacare will exacerbate the existing problems of rising… Read More
Religious Leaders Testify for All Americans’ Liberty
Since the Obamacare anti-conscience mandate was proposed in August, the Obama Administration has come under intense scrutiny for the rule’s violation of religious liberty. In… Read More
Building a Better Medicare Program: The Burr–Coburn Proposal
Senators Richard Burr (R–NC) and Tom Coburn (R–OK) have just unveiled a bold Medicare reform proposal based on the free-market forces of choice and competition…. Read More
Obama Administration Refuses Again to Protect Religious Liberty
President Obama talked the talk but then blatantly refused to walk the walk on the freedom of religious institutions from the Obamacare statute’s mandate for… Read More
Side Effects: Federal Government Taxes Itself and the States
One especially peculiar side effect of Obamacare will cause the federal government to begin taxing itself and state governments. This begins in 2014 as the… Read More
Obama Creating ‘Constitutional Crisis,’ Rep. Tim Walberg Warns
President Obama’s recent assault on the U.S. Constitution — first with his illegal “recess” appointments and then Obamacare’s anti-conscience mandate — demonstrates a lack of… Read More
Senator: Sebelius Fundraising Could Compel Companies to Support Obama
The top Republican on the Senate’s health care committee warned on Wednesday that a recent administration decision to allow cabinet secretaries to raise money for… Read More
Cato’s Michael Tanner Visits Heritage to Talk Obamacare’s Bad Medicine
Michael Tanner, senior fellow at the Cato Institute and author of Bad Medicine: A Guide to the Real Costs and Consequences of the New Health… Read More
The “Doc Fix” Dilemma Calls for Immediate Medicare Reforms
Once again, Congress is scrambling to stop a scheduled 27 percent payment cut to physicians who serve Medicare patients. This frequent exercise serves as a perfect… Read More
No Way Out: How Conscience Gets Trapped in Obamacare’s Little Box of Horrors
If it weren’t for Obamacare, we wouldn’t have this problem. By “this problem,” we mean of course the Obamacare regulation that forces health insurance plans… Read More
Obamacare’s Top Three Budget Busters
Obamacare increases unaffordable government spending, which ultimately comes out of taxpayers’ pockets. Here, we summarize three of the most costly provisions of Obamacare: 1. Medicaid… Read More
Side Effects: Obamacare Tax Will Kill Jobs, Strangle Medical Device Industry
Last week, the IRS released its proposed plan to implement the 2.3 percent excise tax on medical devices designed to help foot the bill for… Read More
Morning Bell: Obama’s Continuing Assault on the Constitution
With tens of millions of Americans watching, Barack Obama stood at the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2009, with his left… Read More
Nothing Has Changed: Obamacare’s Anti-Conscience Mandate
The commotion surrounding President Obama’s press conference Friday on the latest Obamacare mandate caused plenty of confusion over the weekend. But let there be no… Read More
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VIDEO: Sen. Roy Blunt Vows to Fight Obamacare’s Anti-Conscience Mandate
Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) introduced legislation to protect religious organizations from Obamacare’s overreach last summer. Now, as President Obama presses forward with his anti-conscience mandate,… Read More
Heritage Files Amicus Brief on What Congress Did Wrong in Obamacare
Later today, The Heritage Foundation (with five other organizations and former Senator George LeMieux) will file an amicus brief in the Supreme Court in the… Read More
Voices of Opposition Speak Out Against Obama’s Contraception Mandate ‘Accommodation’
“Simply unacceptable.” That’s the near-unanimous response to President Obama’s supposed “accommodation” offered to those who objected to Obamacare’s mandate that religious institutions pay for contraceptive products and services—including abortion-inducing… Read More
Conscience “Accommodation” Doesn’t Address Underlying Problem
On Friday, President Obama announced an “accommodation” to the Health and Human Services (HHS) contraceptive mandate: Rather than requiring religious organizations that provide group health… Read More
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Rep. Price: Obama’s Contraception ‘Accommodation’ is ‘All Rhetoric’
The chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee blasted the president’s self-styled “accommodation” of religious employers required under the Obamacare law to provide contraceptive services… Read More
President Obama’s Unworkable Non-Solution on Conscience
Today, President Obama unsuccessfully attempted to extricate himself from a political crisis of his own making. The issue is Obamacare’s requirement that health insurers and… Read More
Heritage Reacts to White House “Accommodation” to Religious Liberty
After two weeks of increasingly intense criticism over Obamacare’s disregard for religious liberty, the White House woke up this morning in a mood to “accommodate”… Read More
Scribecast: RedState’s Erick Erickson on the State of Conservatism
Seven years ago Erick Erickson took the reins at RedState to transform the conservative blog into one of the most influential sources of news on… Read More
