The House Health Care Bill: Sticking it to Small Business
While the nation’s unemployment rate continues to linger around 10%, Congress will soon return to Washington to devise a way to get a health care… Read More
While the nation’s unemployment rate continues to linger around 10%, Congress will soon return to Washington to devise a way to get a health care… Read More
The Washington Post’s EJ Dionne’s had an op-ed yesterday detailing six policy areas where House Democrats believes they can pull the Senate health care bill… Read More
In a Christmas Eve vote, the American people watched a U.S. Senator betray his pro-life principles for $100 million. The version of Obamacare that passed… Read More
There are at least six key differences that need to be resolved before the House and Senate can cut a deal, in secret, to pass… Read More
The House and Senate still have to iron out six key differences between their versions of the legislation before Obamacare can be signed into law…. Read More
One of Obamacare’s biggest dirty little secrets is that in both the House and Senate versions of the bill, over half of those who gain… Read More
One of the main arguments President Barack Obama and other Democrats have made on behalf of the health care bills that have passed the House… Read More
Imagine watching the biggest game of the year—the Super Bowl—only to have the broadcast cut off as the fourth quarter begins. The same outrage should… Read More
So why don’t President Barack Obama and Speaker Nancy Pelosi want to allow CSPAN to televise the final health care negotiations? Why is White House… Read More
In their quest for universal health care coverage, liberal lawmakers have come to a harsh awakening. As it turns out, insuring everyone is expensive! So,… Read More
So why don’t President Barack Obama and Speaker Nancy Pelosi want to allow CSPAN to televise the final health care negotiations? What deals are being… Read More
In the ongoing attempts of Congress to find an alternative to the “public plan” in health reform, the Senate bill includes a provision to give… Read More
The pressure is building on President Barack Obama, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to open their closed-door health care negotiations to… Read More
When does Washington consider a successful small business a problem to be dealt with? When that small business successfully competes against unionized firms. Then it… Read More
One of the key issues the White House, House, and Senate will be negotiating behind closed doors, is how to pay for President Obama’s $2.5… Read More
Eleven months ago, the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) was created by Congress. The Commission is supposed to review the policies, including… Read More
Nancy-Ann DeParle, the Director of the White House Office of Health Reform, posted a note – ironically titled “Reality Check” – on the White House… Read More
President Barack Obama, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) are planning plenty of health care action in closed-door meetings at the… Read More
Now that health-care bills have passed in both the House and the Senate, Democrats just can’t seem to stop themselves from rhetorical excess. Just before… Read More
How does Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) plan to move Obamacare past the House, despite some highly-controversial, lingering issues? Clues are beginning to appear in the… Read More
Bloomberg reports: The Mayo Clinic, praised by President Barack Obama as a national model for efficient health care, will stop accepting Medicare patients as of… Read More
Obamacare is not yet law, but the battle over which elements of it should be repealed has already begun with both sides believing they will… Read More
The chorus of concern that an individual mandate forcing Americans to purchase health insurance is at a crescendo. The Attorney General of Florida, Bill McCollum,… Read More
Although the left has been celebrating the passage of Obamacare in the Senate as further evidence that the President’s health care reform initiative is a… Read More
As we reported last week, now that the public option is no longer part of Obamacare, President Barack Obama’s leftist base is open revolt over… Read More
This week National Journal Online asked their stable of health experts: Would the leading Democratic health care reform proposals result in a better or worse… Read More
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) attempted to force a vote this Wednesday on an amendment that if adopted will ban the practice of trading earmarks for votes… Read More
As US legislators continue to advance the largest expansion of government control over health care in the US, many Americans may need some comic relief…. Read More
The Senate health care bill no longer contains an explicit “public option,” but it does include heavy regulation of private health plans, including minimum amount… Read More
Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) has pointed observers to a problematic section of the health care legislation now before the Senate that proposes (in Section 3403)… Read More