Healthcare

Healthcare Reform Details Emerge

Details of the various proposals for healthcare reform are beginning to emerge. House Democrats and Republicans are each formulating their own plans, while...

Steven J. DuBord June 19, 2009

Obama on Offsetting Healthcare Reform Costs

Steven J. DuBord June 16, 2009

President Obama devoted his June 13 weekly address to outlining cost savings to offset the massive price tag for his proposed healthcare reform....

Obama Promotes Healthcare Reform

Steven J. DuBord June 12, 2009

As part of his efforts to promote healthcare reform, President Barack Obama attended a town hall meeting at Southwest High School in Green...

Overdosing on Obama Healthcare

June 9, 2009

George Stephanopoulos informed ABC television watchers on May 11 that this is “probably the best chance we’ve had in 15 or 16 years...

Healthcare Reform on the Fast Track

Steven J. DuBord June 8, 2009

In the midst of his travels through the Middle East and Europe, President Barack Obama used his weekly address on June 6 to...

Obama’s One-two Punch vs. Health Insurance Choice

Steven J. DuBord June 4, 2009

“President Obama, in a pivot from some of his harshest campaign rhetoric, told Democratic senators [on June 2] that he is willing to...

Swine Flu: Cure Worse Than the Disease

May 13, 2009

Every person with an ounce of common sense, and an equal amount of compassion for his fellow human beings, takes public health threats...

Swine Flu Battle Called “Encouraging”

May 4, 2009

Though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta said on May 4 that the virus it now officially designates as "novel...

Swine Flu Outbreak May Be Overblown

Charles Scaliger April 29, 2009

While it is still too early to claim that the swine flu outbreak is being overblown, events are beginning to suggest that may...

Cases of Swine Flu Inch Up

Warren Mass April 28, 2009

Information posted on the website of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control on April 28 confirmed a total of 64 human cases of...

World Unnerved by Spread of Swine Flu

Warren Mass April 27, 2009

The world watched warily on April 27, as cases of swine flu that first emerged in Mexico in recent weeks in near-epidemic proportions...

Taxing Our Health

Steven J. DuBord March 30, 2009

ITEM: The Financial Times (London) reported on March 5: ...

Taking “Absolutely Not” for an Answer on Veterans’ Healthcare

Kurt Williamsen March 20, 2009

In early March, veterans’ groups got wind of a plan by the Obama administration to charge veterans’ private health insurance companies for service-related...