Health Care Reform
Environment
Energy independence, security? How about energy realism
Of the hot topics discussed in Washington and the media, there is probably none where the substance-to-blather ratio is higher than in energy, where slogans substitute for serious thought, and where pointing out unwelcome facts is frowned upon as a moral failing. Shallow thought on energy can be found on ...
Health Care
Senate Bill Would Tax Those Who Heal
Investor’s Business Daily, September 14, 2009 National Center for Policy Analysis, September 16, 2009 For several months now, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., has been drafting a health reform bill with a bipartisan group of three Republicans and three Democrats designed to garner support from both parties. Just ...
Environment
What Is Socialism in 2009?
It seems that whatever President Obama talks about — whether it’s overhauling health care, or regulating Wall Street, or telling schoolchildren to study hard — his opponents have called him a socialist. “Socialism” was an epithet on many placards at protests in Washington over the weekend. What does the word ...
Commentary
Republicans Offer Solutions on Health Care
Tort Reform a Point of Bipartisan Agreement Raleigh, N.C. – The debate about health care reform continues as President Obama addresses a joint session of Congress last night to once again attempt to explain the details of his health care plan. At one point in his speech, the President raised ...
Health Care
Fixing an ailing health system
The World Today (Australia), September 10, 2009 ELEANOR HALL: So will this speech by Barack Obama swing policy makers behind the President’s healthcare plans? The issue was always expected to be divisive but former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s talk of “death panels” ramped up fears about a government ...
Commentary
Letters: A government boondoggle
Obamacare is just another government boondoggle The Bennington Banner’s editorial, “So push the button,” directs Democrats to implement the “nuclear option” to force the healthcare bill through Congress — against the will of the American people — and the bipartisan cooperation President Obama has repeatedly promised. Personally, I never thought ...
Commentary
President Obama’s Healthcare Address to Congress
President Obama’s Healthcare Address to Congress On September 9, 2009 President Obama gave a Congressional address to make his case for healthcare reform. In the address he stated: “There are those on the left who believe that the only way to fix the system is through a single-payer system like ...
Commentary
The Experts on Obama’s Health Care Speech
Frontpage Magazine, September 10, 2009 Doc’s Talk, September 10, 2009 FP: Sally Pipes and David Gratzer, welcome to Frontpage Interview. Sally Pipes, let me start with you. Your thoughts on Obama’s speech? Pipes: President Obama gave a very passionate 48-minute speech to Congress and the nation tonight, his 29th address ...
Commentary
Shut Up, He Explained
It’s a sign of how badly things are going for Barack Obama on the make-or-break issue of his tenure that the president delivered yesterday’s prime time health care address in a forum traditionally reserved for national crises. But with public disapproval of the president’s handling of health care rising to ...
Business & Economics
Without legal reforms, the health care system will remain broken
There’s an old joke about the boy who goes to the doctor and uses his index finger to point all over his body, explaining, “It hurts here, here, here and here.” The doctor sighs and says, “Son, your finger is broken.” This poor kid was looking for his ailment in ...
Energy independence, security? How about energy realism
Of the hot topics discussed in Washington and the media, there is probably none where the substance-to-blather ratio is higher than in energy, where slogans substitute for serious thought, and where pointing out unwelcome facts is frowned upon as a moral failing. Shallow thought on energy can be found on ...
Senate Bill Would Tax Those Who Heal
Investor’s Business Daily, September 14, 2009 National Center for Policy Analysis, September 16, 2009 For several months now, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., has been drafting a health reform bill with a bipartisan group of three Republicans and three Democrats designed to garner support from both parties. Just ...
What Is Socialism in 2009?
It seems that whatever President Obama talks about — whether it’s overhauling health care, or regulating Wall Street, or telling schoolchildren to study hard — his opponents have called him a socialist. “Socialism” was an epithet on many placards at protests in Washington over the weekend. What does the word ...
Republicans Offer Solutions on Health Care
Tort Reform a Point of Bipartisan Agreement Raleigh, N.C. – The debate about health care reform continues as President Obama addresses a joint session of Congress last night to once again attempt to explain the details of his health care plan. At one point in his speech, the President raised ...
Fixing an ailing health system
The World Today (Australia), September 10, 2009 ELEANOR HALL: So will this speech by Barack Obama swing policy makers behind the President’s healthcare plans? The issue was always expected to be divisive but former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s talk of “death panels” ramped up fears about a government ...
Letters: A government boondoggle
Obamacare is just another government boondoggle The Bennington Banner’s editorial, “So push the button,” directs Democrats to implement the “nuclear option” to force the healthcare bill through Congress — against the will of the American people — and the bipartisan cooperation President Obama has repeatedly promised. Personally, I never thought ...
President Obama’s Healthcare Address to Congress
President Obama’s Healthcare Address to Congress On September 9, 2009 President Obama gave a Congressional address to make his case for healthcare reform. In the address he stated: “There are those on the left who believe that the only way to fix the system is through a single-payer system like ...
The Experts on Obama’s Health Care Speech
Frontpage Magazine, September 10, 2009 Doc’s Talk, September 10, 2009 FP: Sally Pipes and David Gratzer, welcome to Frontpage Interview. Sally Pipes, let me start with you. Your thoughts on Obama’s speech? Pipes: President Obama gave a very passionate 48-minute speech to Congress and the nation tonight, his 29th address ...
Shut Up, He Explained
It’s a sign of how badly things are going for Barack Obama on the make-or-break issue of his tenure that the president delivered yesterday’s prime time health care address in a forum traditionally reserved for national crises. But with public disapproval of the president’s handling of health care rising to ...
Without legal reforms, the health care system will remain broken
There’s an old joke about the boy who goes to the doctor and uses his index finger to point all over his body, explaining, “It hurts here, here, here and here.” The doctor sighs and says, “Son, your finger is broken.” This poor kid was looking for his ailment in ...
