Health Reform & Illegal Immigration
“Health care reform could end up bailing out employers who hire illegal immigrants and skimp on their health benefits,” Fox News reported on...
Healthcare
Obama’s Doctor Pessimistic on Reform
The Huffington Post reported on July 29 that Dr. David Scheiner, a physician who has treated Barack Obama for more than 20 years,...
Read moreBlue Dog Dems Strike Deal on Health Care
Members of a coalition of moderate House Democrats called the “Blue Dogs” have struck a deal to move Obama’s health care legislation forward after...
Read moreDefense Officials Worry About H1N1 Outbreak This Fall
Defense Department officials, in collaboration with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), are considering a proposal whose stated purpose is to assist civilian...
Read moreCBO on House Democrats’ Health Reform Plan
The Congressional Budget Office on July 26 published a preliminary analysis of the House Democrats’ healthcare reform proposal known as America’s Affordable Health...
Read moreIs Obama Suppressing Deficit Info to Push Healthcare?
The lead in the Associated Press story reads: “The White House is being forced to acknowledge the wide gap between its once-upbeat predictions...
Read moreHealth Reform Biased Against Seniors
Dr. John Goodman’s Health Policy Blog for July 22 makes clear the harsh reality that the only way for President Barack Obama’s version...
Read moreWhat Obama Doesn’t Know About Healthcare Can Hurt Us
The good news is that President Obama’s healthcare bill has little chance of passing. The bad news is that the bill may pass,...
Read moreGOP Charts Healthcare Bureaucracy
House Republican Leader John Boehner of Ohio held a press briefing on July 15 to highlight a chart illustrating the labyrinthine bureaucracy that...
Read moreObama Sells $1 Trillion Health Care Spending Increase as Deficit Control
President Obama has decided to sell a government-directed healthcare system as a deficit control measure. “If we do not control these costs” of...
Read moreObama’s Deceptive Government Takeover of Healthcare
“I happen to be a proponent of a single payer, universal healthcare plan.... That’s what I’d like to see, but as all of...
Read moreGovernors, Abortion Stymie Health Reform
President Barack Obama’s push for healthcare reform is being stymied for some very different reasons. ...
Read moreHarry & Louise & Uncle Sam
They’re back, and they’ve changed their tune. Harry and Louise, the fictional couple who starred in television commercials about healthcare reform about 15...
Read moreDavid Gregory Puts Obama’s HHS Secretary Through the Ringer
NBC’s Meet the Press Host David Gregory must have been channeling the ghost of the late, great Tim Russert Sunday with his interview...
Read moreRNC Chair Calls Obama Plan Socialism
Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee, spoke on July 20 at the National Press Club. AP reported the same day that...
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