Obamacare

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Orszag’s ‘pillars’ unsteady as health care foundation

Over the past several months, White House budget director Peter Orszag has emphasized that rising federal health care costs threaten to cripple our nation financially. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed in May, Mr. Orszag wrote that the effects of “every other fiscal policy variable” on federal deficits would be ...
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Obamacare: Time to Start Over

Instead, Democratic leaders are talking about scaling back their current bills and trying to pick off a few isolated Republicans without ever having invited the GOP to the table in any meaningful way. This might have worked a few months ago, but things have changed. On the CBS Early Show, ...
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A Switch in Time to Save Nine

Memo to House Dems: Just say ‘no’ to Obamacare. “The Democratic Party is lashed to health reform—even in the face of polls showing tepid public support.” Thus Politico’s Carrie Brown paraphrases senior Democratic aides. As unappealing as that predicament may sound, Brown writes that those same aides say “it would ...
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Can We Have $21K for Obamacare, Grandma?

More than 10,250,000 American seniors are enrolled in the popular Medicare Advantage program, which lets them choose to get their Medicare benefits through private insurers. It’s been widely reported that seniors’ Medicare Advantage benefits would be cut under Obamacare. What hasn’t been widely reported is by how much. According to ...
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Coakley Offers Seniors No Advantage

The Massachusetts race has major ramifications for all seniors. The Massachusetts Senate special election is shaping up as a referendum on the health-care debate in Washington. And its outcome may well determine whether Massachusetts seniors get to keep the Medicare benefits they currently enjoy. Alone among the American people, Massachusetts ...
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Time For Some To Slip Noose Of ObamaCare

It’s painfully obvious the American people don’t want ObamaCare and equally obvious that the Democrats, especially President Obama, don’t particularly care. The Democrats feel inoculated against voter dissatisfaction because they’ve bought into their own wishful narrative: that voters punished them in 1994 because they failed to pass HillaryCare, not because ...
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Seizing the Initiative

Constituents of those who voted for Stupak — and constituents of alleged “Blue Dogs” — should flood their offices with helpful reminders of the right way to go (remembering that the key is the quantity of letters, not the quality — since the member only hears the tallies and won’t ...
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Obamacare’s Three Major Hurdles

The Democrats are determined to expand the federal government’s portfolio beyond the Post Office, Amtrak, and General Motors, by adding the entire health-care industry to its holdings. But before they can subject what will soon be one-fifth of our economy to the federal government’s command-and-control model, Democrats must clear three ...
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Advantage Cronyism

If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, at least if you pay cash. One of the many problems with funneling our nation’s health-care system through our nation’s political system is that it would politicize health care. The health-care bill that recently passed the Senate ...
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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

Orszag’s ‘pillars’ unsteady as health care foundation

Over the past several months, White House budget director Peter Orszag has emphasized that rising federal health care costs threaten to cripple our nation financially. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed in May, Mr. Orszag wrote that the effects of “every other fiscal policy variable” on federal deficits would be ...
Commentary

Obamacare: Time to Start Over

Instead, Democratic leaders are talking about scaling back their current bills and trying to pick off a few isolated Republicans without ever having invited the GOP to the table in any meaningful way. This might have worked a few months ago, but things have changed. On the CBS Early Show, ...
Commentary

A Switch in Time to Save Nine

Memo to House Dems: Just say ‘no’ to Obamacare. “The Democratic Party is lashed to health reform—even in the face of polls showing tepid public support.” Thus Politico’s Carrie Brown paraphrases senior Democratic aides. As unappealing as that predicament may sound, Brown writes that those same aides say “it would ...
Commentary

Can We Have $21K for Obamacare, Grandma?

More than 10,250,000 American seniors are enrolled in the popular Medicare Advantage program, which lets them choose to get their Medicare benefits through private insurers. It’s been widely reported that seniors’ Medicare Advantage benefits would be cut under Obamacare. What hasn’t been widely reported is by how much. According to ...
Commentary

Coakley Offers Seniors No Advantage

The Massachusetts race has major ramifications for all seniors. The Massachusetts Senate special election is shaping up as a referendum on the health-care debate in Washington. And its outcome may well determine whether Massachusetts seniors get to keep the Medicare benefits they currently enjoy. Alone among the American people, Massachusetts ...
Commentary

Time For Some To Slip Noose Of ObamaCare

It’s painfully obvious the American people don’t want ObamaCare and equally obvious that the Democrats, especially President Obama, don’t particularly care. The Democrats feel inoculated against voter dissatisfaction because they’ve bought into their own wishful narrative: that voters punished them in 1994 because they failed to pass HillaryCare, not because ...
Commentary

Seizing the Initiative

Constituents of those who voted for Stupak — and constituents of alleged “Blue Dogs” — should flood their offices with helpful reminders of the right way to go (remembering that the key is the quantity of letters, not the quality — since the member only hears the tallies and won’t ...
Commentary

Obamacare’s Three Major Hurdles

The Democrats are determined to expand the federal government’s portfolio beyond the Post Office, Amtrak, and General Motors, by adding the entire health-care industry to its holdings. But before they can subject what will soon be one-fifth of our economy to the federal government’s command-and-control model, Democrats must clear three ...
Commentary

Advantage Cronyism

If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, at least if you pay cash. One of the many problems with funneling our nation’s health-care system through our nation’s political system is that it would politicize health care. The health-care bill that recently passed the Senate ...
Commentary

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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