Fact Checking the White House: Congressmen Did Opt Out of Public Option
Contrary to the White House’s video, member of Congress in the House Ways and Means Committee already have exempted themselves from a government-run health plan… Read More
Contrary to the White House’s video, member of Congress in the House Ways and Means Committee already have exempted themselves from a government-run health plan… Read More
For most of 2009, President Obama, Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid have been obsessed with a “public option” for health care, which would create… Read More
The Atlantic reports: That’s what Rep. Baron Hill (D-IN), the policy leader of the conservative/moderate Blue Dog coalition, explained to a journalism student at a… Read More
Reporters pressed health care policy experts to address that question at a health reform panel in light of White House senior advisor David Axelrod’s assertions… Read More
Byron York gets this scoop in the Washington Examiner today: …if the plan envisioned by President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats is enacted, the primary… Read More
Car insurance doesn’t pay to fill up your gas tank, why does health insurance pay for your flu shot? ABC’s John Stossel explores how third-party… Read More
NOWHampshire.com reports: In four short years Carol Shea-Porter has evolved from a rabble-rousing, town hall disrupting anti-war activist who once had to be forcibly removed… Read More
This past summer, the Heritage Foundation released jaw-dropping estimates, conducted by The Lewin Group, regarding the impact a public health insurance plan from the House… Read More
You hear or read the number all the time. The New York Times breathlessly reports there are 46 million uninsured Americans and President Barack Obama… Read More
Heritage consultant Mark Wilson published a new study Friday, detailing how the “play-or-pay” employer mandates in H.R. 3200 will put 5.2 million low-wage workers at… Read More
On August 6th, Michigan resident Mike Sola confronted Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) at a health care townhall about H.R. 3200’s effect on his son Scott…. Read More
The White House public relations team has a problem. Where on earth did people get these ideas about government rationing health care? They ask. Why… Read More
As a follow-up to earlier posts on the so-called consumer protections included in the bills backed by Congressional leadership, a state level survey by America’s… Read More
On Wednesday of this week, former Democratic National Committee chairman and presidential candidate Howard Dean spoke at a health care townhall hosted by Rep. Jim… Read More
ABC and NBC have so far refused to run a 33 second advertisement by the League of American Voters that questions the Obama health care… Read More
During the mark up of H.R. 3200, House Ways and Means Committee member Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI) voted against an amendment that would have required… Read More
Writing for the National Review’s blog, The Corner, Heritage’s Mike Franc details at length the evolution of this summer’s health care debate, what works, what… Read More
Congressman Jim Moran recently demanded to see identification from a constituent at a townhall meeting. Presumably, Moran thought he had caught an astroturf protester from… Read More
President Obama and Democrats in Congress want to impose two costly health insurance regulations nationwide. The first is community rating, which prohibits insurers from varying… Read More
“Nobody is talking about reducing Medicare benefits,” says President Obama…except the lawmakers on Capitol Hill who have proposed to cut roughly $150 billion from the… Read More
David Leonhardt reports in today’s New York Times: You might think, then, that a central goal of health reform would be to offer people more… Read More
As the debate over the “public option” for health care heats up, a new attempt to ridicule those with concerns over government provision of services… Read More
Oklahoma’s lone Democratic Congressman, Dan Boren, opposes any law that leads to a government-run health care system. Moreover, should a health bill pass he pledges… Read More
Versions of single payer systems have been tried in Maine and Tennessee already. Results were disastrous. No wonder, then, that the informed citizens at Rep…. Read More
Rather than debate the substance, the White House is in full campaign mode in order to label any opposition to its government-heavy health reform agenda… Read More
Rather than debate the substance, the White House is in full campaign mode in order to label any opposition to its government-heavy health reform agenda… Read More
The Oregon Health Plan is a government run health insurance option that, like some current health plans being pushed in Washington, is designed to increase… Read More
When health policy experts, journalists and those in the health care system gathered at the National Press Club this week to discuss the facts and… Read More
Today’s Wall Street Journal reviews the results from Maine’s experiment with Obamacare: In 2003, the state to great fanfare enacted its own version of universal… Read More
Over the course of the health care debate, the bloggers at Verum Serum have done a true service to the cause of honesty in public… Read More
