Competition Improving Health Care Locally
In Rochester, New York local businesses and health care providers teamed up to improve health standards on their own.
Health Care
Republicans Pledge Austerity in New Congress
With a renewed sense of fiscal conservatism, incoming Republican congressmen promise to try to repeal ObamaCare and reform entitlement.
Court Rules Health Insurance Mandate Unconstitutional
The individual mandate in Obamacare exceeds the boundaries of congressional power.
Debt Commission Proposes Deep Budget Cuts
The chairmen of the president’s debt commission put forth major entitlement reforms.
What a Republican Majority Can Accomplish
Even if they have made big promises, Republicans will probably try to work with this administration, not against it.
Smoking Increasingly Banned Worldwide
In the name of protecting people against themselves, smoking is heavily taxed and increasingly banned around the world.
The Government Boot on Your Doctor’s Neck
We live in an age when the Secretary of the Interior and the White House Press Secretary proudly and publicly proclaim that they will keep their “boot on the neck” of an oil company. This new manifestation of “hope” and “change” is ominous at a time when the government is rapidly escalating its involvement and […]
Redeeming Reform
Richard Ralston wonders whether Americans should sit back and watch the last of their freedoms waste away or do something.
The Real Face of Obamacare
The head of Medicare and Medicaid laments the “darkness” of private health insurance.
Paul Ryan’s Radicalism
Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin stubbornly persists in his crusade for free-market capitalism though criticism of his “Roadmap for America’s Future” is fierce. In February, Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag deconstructed Ryan’s plans, stating that although they address long-term fiscal problems, many lawmakers might find them “objectionable” because, as Politico put it, […]
The Price of Obamacare
Surprise, surprise, health-care reform is going to cost corporate America dearly. The Wall Street Journal reports that telephone giant AT&T is among the first businesses to announce multimillion dollar writedowns solely due to the health bill. “The corporate damage rolls in, and Democrats are shocked!” writes the paper. To make health-care reform appear financially responsible, […]
Profits Are for People
Those who advocate for government controls in medicine cry, “People, not profits.” They say profits are unacceptable in medicine because our health is so important. But it is precisely because our health is so important that profits must be vigorously defended. If quality health care disappears for Americans, it will have been killed by the […]
Public Option Still an Option
The health-care reform bill must to back to the House for a revote. Democratic lawmakers in the Senate now have the possibility of including a public option after all.
State Lawmakers Debate States’ Rights
Since the recent Federal Universal Healthcare Legislation has been made into quasi-law, state governments have been taking a stand for their constituents arguing that it is unconstitutional to force citizens to pay a penalty for refusing to participate in the federal health-care program. This includes states that Barack Obama both won and lost in the […]
States Fighting Health Care Bill
Health care reform may have passed through Congress but individual states are lining up to contest its constitutionality, in court, if need be. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli of Virginia was the first to announce on Monday that he will file a legal challenge as soon as the president signs the reconciliation bill into law. Cuccinelli’s […]