Healthcare

New Day, New Tax, Healthcare Reform Rolls On

Nobody wants to disappoint President Obama on the eve of the holiday season, so all the stops are going to be removed in...

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. November 13, 2009

CDC Guesstimates, ‘Recalculates’ Swine Flu Deaths

Alex Newman November 12, 2009

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recalculated its original estimates and is now indicating that over 4,000 Americans have likely...

Antibiotic Overuse Threatening Health Crisis

Dinah Seppi November 12, 2009

Have you ever gone to your doctor for a prescription to clear up a bad cold? The evidence is that antibiotics do not...

Reid Reportedly Ready to Raise Taxes to Fund “Public Option”

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. November 12, 2009

Anxious to find a revenue source rich enough to fund the proposed government-supported healthcare behemoth, Senate Democrats are considering dipping their buckets into...

Cord Blood Stem-cells Healed Little Girl

Steven J. DuBord November 11, 2009

Back in 2006, little Chloe Levine was born as the apparently healthy baby girl her parents had been waiting for. Sadly, before her...

Reid: Obama Will Have Healthcare Bill by Christmas

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. November 11, 2009

With a new bag of political capital burning a hole in his pocket, President Obama pressed his nose against the window and wondered...

House Healthcare Bill: Medicare for a New Millennium

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. November 9, 2009

Congressman Eric Cantor of Virginia squeezes past a pillar at the back of the House Chamber and sits in an empty seat, his...

Healthcare Bill: Pay for a Plan or Go to Jail

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. November 7, 2009

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is prepared to jail any American who does not buy a qualifying health insurance plan if the...

AARP & AMA Support House Healthcare Bill

Steven J. DuBord November 6, 2009

AARP, the 40-million-member senior-citizen lobbying group, and the American Medical Association, representing 250,000 physicians, on November 5 threw their support behind the healthcare...

Constitutional Healthcare

Jack Kenny November 6, 2009

The Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives was apparently dumbfounded recently when a reporter asked about the constitutional authority for requiring people...

Obamacare and the Demise of Federalism

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. November 6, 2009

By the time of the founding, the definition of federalism was already so firmly settled and so deeply imbedded in the American understanding...

The Healthcare Bill’s Sops to the Mental-health Industry

Beverly K. Eakman November 5, 2009

Most people (including Members of Congress and the press) won’t read the nearly 2,000-page healthcare bill (“Affordable Health Care for America Act”: H.R....

Catholic Bishops: The Faithful Should Not Support Current Healthcare Reform Bills

Selwyn Duke November 3, 2009

Upset about the inclusion of abortion funding and mandates in the healthcare reform bills currently before Congress, the United States Conference of Catholic...