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Conservative Alternatives to ObamaCare

(Sue Lowden) – Rather than crippling our nation with higher debt and higher taxes to fund government-run health care, I have called for solutions that can begin to drive down the cost of health insurance, thus making it more accessible to those who do not have coverage today. First, Congress ...
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Now Is the Time to Fight

However, from the start of Christmas week, the important and interesting question was not whether the Senate would pass its bill (that was a foregone conclusion once Ben Nelson yielded to party pressure and waived his abortion objections in exchange for a nice helping of pork). It was whether those ...
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Democrats in Fantasyland on Health Care Reform

While Harry Reid, the Scrooge of the Senate, forces a health care vote on December 24, Americans are commencing their Christmas celebrations. Across the continent from Washington, one popular destination, Disneyland, is decorated with Christmas splendor in anticipation of hundreds of thousands of people visiting it over the holidays. There ...
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Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Obamacare

Obamacare would require Americans to buy government-approved health insurance. It would make it illegal to offer choices in insurance plans beyond the handful of very similar ones that the government would allow. It would become illegal to offer new and innovative plans. Under any of the government-approved plans, it would ...
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The Senator Who Stole Christmas

One can understand their desire to wrap Obamacare up with a nice little Senate bow by Christmas Day. After all, the Senate bill would start (in any meaningful way) by around Christmas — Christmas future, that is. The Congressional Budget Office says that less than 2 percent of the bill’s ...
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Media Parade as ObamaCare Hangs in the Balance

The hour-by-hour drama of the Democrats’ attempt to secure 60 votes in the Senate to advance their health care agenda is gripping the nation. Is Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) in? Or is he out? And what about Ben Nelson (D-NE)? While Lieberman is rightly accused of flip-flopping on the issue of ...
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The Essence of Obamacare

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What Really Happened in 1994

When seeking reelection, the more conservative Democrats usually fare far worse than other Democrats, for the simple reason that they generally run against legitimate Republican opposition in states or districts that can, and do, swing either way. In stark contrast, over the last 20 years, the most liberal third of ...
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Obamacare’s Winners and Losers

So, let’s tally the results: Winners: the federal government (more control) and health insurers (more government-mandated business, in exchange for losing most of their autonomy and ceasing to be private businesses in any meaningful sense), the minority of low-to-middle income Americans who don’t have employer-provided insurance and would henceforth receive ...
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The Real Lessons of 1994

Voters punished Democrats for Hillarycare. They’ll do the same for Obamacare. Democratic senators and congressmen have been trying to convince each other, particularly their more conservative colleagues, that they’ll all be better off in the 2010 elections–and will avoid a repeat of their 1994 debacle–if they pass Obama-care. Bill Clinton, ...
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Conservative Alternatives to ObamaCare

(Sue Lowden) – Rather than crippling our nation with higher debt and higher taxes to fund government-run health care, I have called for solutions that can begin to drive down the cost of health insurance, thus making it more accessible to those who do not have coverage today. First, Congress ...
Commentary

Now Is the Time to Fight

However, from the start of Christmas week, the important and interesting question was not whether the Senate would pass its bill (that was a foregone conclusion once Ben Nelson yielded to party pressure and waived his abortion objections in exchange for a nice helping of pork). It was whether those ...
Commentary

Democrats in Fantasyland on Health Care Reform

While Harry Reid, the Scrooge of the Senate, forces a health care vote on December 24, Americans are commencing their Christmas celebrations. Across the continent from Washington, one popular destination, Disneyland, is decorated with Christmas splendor in anticipation of hundreds of thousands of people visiting it over the holidays. There ...
Commentary

Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Obamacare

Obamacare would require Americans to buy government-approved health insurance. It would make it illegal to offer choices in insurance plans beyond the handful of very similar ones that the government would allow. It would become illegal to offer new and innovative plans. Under any of the government-approved plans, it would ...
Commentary

The Senator Who Stole Christmas

One can understand their desire to wrap Obamacare up with a nice little Senate bow by Christmas Day. After all, the Senate bill would start (in any meaningful way) by around Christmas — Christmas future, that is. The Congressional Budget Office says that less than 2 percent of the bill’s ...
Commentary

Media Parade as ObamaCare Hangs in the Balance

The hour-by-hour drama of the Democrats’ attempt to secure 60 votes in the Senate to advance their health care agenda is gripping the nation. Is Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) in? Or is he out? And what about Ben Nelson (D-NE)? While Lieberman is rightly accused of flip-flopping on the issue of ...
Commentary

The Essence of Obamacare

Commentary

What Really Happened in 1994

When seeking reelection, the more conservative Democrats usually fare far worse than other Democrats, for the simple reason that they generally run against legitimate Republican opposition in states or districts that can, and do, swing either way. In stark contrast, over the last 20 years, the most liberal third of ...
Commentary

Obamacare’s Winners and Losers

So, let’s tally the results: Winners: the federal government (more control) and health insurers (more government-mandated business, in exchange for losing most of their autonomy and ceasing to be private businesses in any meaningful sense), the minority of low-to-middle income Americans who don’t have employer-provided insurance and would henceforth receive ...
Commentary

The Real Lessons of 1994

Voters punished Democrats for Hillarycare. They’ll do the same for Obamacare. Democratic senators and congressmen have been trying to convince each other, particularly their more conservative colleagues, that they’ll all be better off in the 2010 elections–and will avoid a repeat of their 1994 debacle–if they pass Obama-care. Bill Clinton, ...
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