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Kathleen Sebelius: Reducing Pregnancies Will Cut Healthcare Costs

While fielding questions from the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health regarding President Obama’s 2013 budget proposal, Health and Human Services (HHS)...

Brian Koenig March 5, 2012

Conservative, Religious Leaders React to Senate Rejection of Conscience Exemption

Dave Bohon March 3, 2012

On Thursday the U.S. Senate rejected a measure that would have provided conscience protections for individuals and institutions opposed to President Obama’s mandate...

Texas Doctor Charged With $375-Million Healthcare Fraud

Brian Koenig March 2, 2012

A Texas doctor was arrested Tuesday for allegedly "selling his signature" to process nearly $375 million in fraudulent Medicare and Medicaid claims in...

Seven States File Suit to Stop Obama’s Contraception Mandate

Dave Bohon February 28, 2012

A total of seven states have joined together in a lawsuit against the Obama administration, seeking to halt the mandate requiring employers to...

Court Rules for Pro-life Pharmacists in Washington State

Dave Bohon February 25, 2012

As resistance intensifies to the Obama administration’s mandate requiring employers to offer health insurance that includes free access to contraception, a federal judge...

Sens. Burr and Coburn Unveil Medicare Reform Bill

Brian Koenig February 17, 2012

In a move that is fated to incite political mutiny, Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Okla., left) and Richard Burr (R-N.C.) unveiled a bold Medicare...

Catholic Bishops Reject Obama’s Contraception “Compromise”

Dave Bohon February 13, 2012

America’s Roman Catholic bishops have joined other Christian and conservative voices in rejecting President Obama’s “compromise” on his earlier announced mandate requiring all...

Romney’s Criticism of Obama’s Contraception Policy Rings Hollow

Michael Tennant February 10, 2012

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has lately been arguing strenuously against the Obama administration’s decision to force all employers, regardless of their religious...

Critics Call Obama’s Contraception “Compromise” a “Distinction Without a Difference”

Dave Bohon February 10, 2012

Christian and pro-family groups are blasting President Obama’s “compromise” on his contraception mandate for religious groups as a meaningless distinction without a difference....

How Leviathan Works: FDA to Regulate Medical Apps

Bob Adelmann February 9, 2012

The press release issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which operates under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS),...

Former Congresswoman Regrets ObamaCare Vote; Unaware of Contraceptive Mandate

Michael Tennant February 8, 2012

Former U.S. Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper of Erie, Pennsylvania, was one of six pro-life Democrats in Congress who caved in to pressure from President...

States Consider Raw Milk Legislation

Raven Clabough February 7, 2012

Americans in favor of food sovereignty have been clashing with the federal government for years over raw — or unpasteurized — milk, which...

Did Newt Gingrich Endorse ObamaCare in 2009?

Michael Tennant February 2, 2012

From 1993 until midway through 2011, Newt Gingrich repeatedly and quite forcefully argued that the federal government ought to impose an ObamaCare-like individual...