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Food Companies and GOP Rail Against Federal Food Guidelines

The Obama administration continues to take on the food industry, this time pressuring food companies to discontinue advertising junk food for children. Republicans...

Raven Clabough July 7, 2011

49 Congressmen Seek Investigation of Kagan’s ObamaCare Involvement

Michael Tennant July 4, 2011

Did Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, in her Senate confirmation hearings, tell the truth with regard to her involvement in formulating a defense...

Obama Administration Puts Stealth Survey of Doctors “On Indefinite Hold”

Michael Tennant June 30, 2011

The Obama administration has called off plans to conduct a “mystery shopper” survey of doctors’ offices to determine whether prospective patients with government...

Lieberman’s Plan to Fix Medicare Just Kicks the Can Down the Road

Bob Adelmann June 30, 2011

Senator Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) joined with Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) on Tuesday in announcing their plan to reform Medicare before it goes “broke...

RomneyCare Brings High Healthcare Costs, Calls for Price Controls

Michael Tennant June 29, 2011

Anyone who believes ObamaCare will mean lower healthcare costs and higher-quality healthcare has only to look to the state that has been suffering...

Feds Spy on Doctors: Equal Care to Those With Private & Govt Insurance?

Michael Tennant June 27, 2011

Physician, steel thyself: The next person who calls your office seeking an appointment may just be a spy for the federal government. ...

ObamaCare Makes Medicaid a Middle-class Entitlement

Michael Tennant June 23, 2011

Among the many miracles ObamaCare was supposed to have wrought were reduced federal healthcare spending and lower federal deficits. Although those claims have...

Texas House Approves Sweeping Medicaid Reform Package

Brian Koenig June 10, 2011

As state and federal deficits continue to climb and as entitlement spending maintains a sharp upward curve, Texas legislators passed a sweeping reform...

Appeals Court Critically Questions ObamaCare, Individual Mandate

Raven Clabough June 9, 2011

The 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals began hearing arguments yesterday for the next legal battle over ObamaCare. The court's three presiding judges...

Got Meds? Not Necessarily, Say U.S. Hospitals

Beverly K. Eakman June 3, 2011

Over the Memorial Day weekend, while many were getting their first taste of summer — ergo, not reading the news — it was...

Practicing Medicine Without a License

May 27, 2011

In 2007, a 63-year-old American veteran went to a VA hospital for evaluation of his exertional chest pain — again. Seven years earlier...

Reid: No Change to “Medicare as We Know It”

Michael Tennant May 27, 2011

Medicare presents an enormous unfunded liability — $24.6 trillion, according to its trustees — to the U.S. government and, by extension, to U.S....

Taxpayers Scammed by Fraudulent Disability Benefits

Brian Koenig May 24, 2011

Following a report of potential fraud of Social Security Disability Income (SSDI), Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) wrote a trenchant...