Healthcare

What Obama Doesn’t Know About Healthcare Can Hurt Us

The good news is that President Obama’s healthcare bill has little chance of passing. The bad news is that the bill may pass,...

R. Cort Kirkwood July 24, 2009

GOP Charts Healthcare Bureaucracy

Steven J. DuBord July 24, 2009

House Republican Leader John Boehner of Ohio held a press briefing on July 15 to highlight a chart illustrating the labyrinthine bureaucracy that...

Obama Sells $1 Trillion Health Care Spending Increase as Deficit Control

Thomas R. Eddlem July 23, 2009

President Obama has decided to sell a government-directed healthcare system as a deficit control measure. “If we do not control these costs” of...

Governors, Abortion Stymie Health Reform

Steven J. DuBord July 22, 2009

President Barack Obama’s push for healthcare reform is being stymied for some very different reasons. ...

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Obama’s Deceptive Government Takeover of Healthcare

Larry Greenley July 22, 2009

“I happen to be a proponent of a single payer, universal healthcare plan.... That’s what I’d like to see, but as all of...

Harry & Louise & Uncle Sam

Steven J. DuBord July 21, 2009

They’re back, and they’ve changed their tune. Harry and Louise, the fictional couple who starred in television commercials about healthcare reform about 15...

David Gregory Puts Obama’s HHS Secretary Through the Ringer

Thomas R. Eddlem July 20, 2009

NBC’s Meet the Press Host David Gregory must have been channeling the ghost of the late, great Tim Russert Sunday with his interview...

RNC Chair Calls Obama Plan Socialism

Steven J. DuBord July 20, 2009

Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee, spoke on July 20 at the National Press Club. AP reported the same day that...

Mass. Pushes Rationing to Control Universal Healthcare Costs

Thomas R. Eddlem July 19, 2009

A 10-member Massachusetts state healthcare advisory board unanimously recommended that the state begin rationing healthcare to keep the state’s marquee universal health care...

CBO Warns of Health Reform Cost

Steven J. DuBord July 18, 2009

The Congressional Budget Office on July 16 warned that the Democrats’ healthcare reform bills won’t reduce the federal government’s spending on medical care....

A Chicken in Every Pot and Healthcare for All

Selwyn Duke July 16, 2009

You're going to be healthy — whether you like it or not. The Obama administration is pushing for a national healthcare bill this...

Surgeon General Nominee Regina Benjamin

Ann Shibler July 16, 2009

President Obama has nominated Dr. Regina Benjamin as his choice for Surgeon General. A White House spokesman, Reid Cherlin, has assured the nation...

Senate Would Mandate Employee Insurance

Steven J. DuBord July 13, 2009

A July 13 Washington Business Journal article reported that the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee has finally defined its proposed “pay...