Health Care on Townhall

• White House Launches Health Care Offensive Fri May 10
• Obama's Health Care Law Getting Pushback From Dems Fri May 10
• GOP boycotts health care advisory board Thu May 9
  AP News
• Obamacare: A Progress Report? Tue Apr 30
  Randall DeSoto
  As the fateful date of Obamacare’s arrival in 2014 approaches, an in-progress review seems in order. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s main stated purpose was to make medical care more affordable and/or available to Americans, and the unstated reality is that it needs to do so in a sustainable fashion. ... more
• Reject CLASS 2.0 and Address Medicaid’s Looming LTC Crisis Sun Apr 28
  Charles Boustany
  As we work to reign in wasteful spending and improve retirement security, our nation cannot afford to overlook Medicaid’s long-term care (LTC) financing crisis. ... more
• NY lawsuit accuses Novartis of health care fraud Tue Apr 23
  AP News
• Hospitals 'Deport' Sick, Undocumented Immigrants Tue Apr 23
  Washington, D.C.
  Hospitals trying to curb costs have chartered flights to send sick, uninsured, undocumented immigrants back to their home countries. It's a process called medical repatriation, and critics say it amounts to unregulated deportation. ... more
• Union Seeks Repeal of ObamaCare Mon Apr 22
  Michael F. Cannon
  United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers International President Kinsey M. Robinson issued the following statement calling for a repeal or complete reform of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA): ... more
• An Abortion Ghoul's Chamber of Horrors Wed Apr 17
  Ken Connor
  Last week, I wrote a column entitled "Brutality in the Brave New World" discussing an appalling movement within the scientific community in which researchers are exploring the "therapeutic" potential of the eggs of aborted baby girls. In a similar vein, a bioethicist writing for the Huffington Post in 2009 famously suggested that pregnant women wanting abortions be paid to remain pregnant longer so that their aborted babies yield more "useful" body parts. In the face of such moral depravity, the only conclusion to be drawn was that mankind has given itself over utterly to the appetites of ambition and avarice, and Heaven help those who find themselves the object of these appetites unchecked by moral standards. ... more
• Illinois Supreme Court to hear retiree health care case Thu Apr 11
  Reuters News
• When Government and Health Care Converge, Socialism Begins Wed Apr 10
  Terry Jeffrey
  The most ominous trend in America's employment data is not the number of people who have left the labor force, but the number who are now working either for the government or in the as-yet-still-private sector of the health care industry. ... more
• Malpractice Law Is Bad for Your Health Sat Apr 6
  John C. Goodman
  One of the worst features of the American health care system is the sorry state of medical malpractice law. Fewer than 2 percent of injured patients ever file a lawsuit. Of those that do, only one in 15 receives compensation. ... more
• President Obama Reluctantly Embraces President Obama's Idea Fri Apr 5
  Kevin Glass
• Scott Walker’s Collective Bargaining Reform Blunting Sting of Obamacare Premium Increases Fri Apr 5
  Kyle Olson
  When Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker passed his controversial collective bargaining reforms known as Act 10, little did he know he would be easing the pain of pending increases in health insurance premiums caused by Obamacare. ... more
• Mitch McConnell Prepares To Give Barack Obama The Political Shellacking Of A Lifetime Wed Apr 3
  Ralph Benko
  Coming up next: a political Battle of Armageddon over repealing Obamacare. The Republicans are attempting to take the majority in the Senate. The Democrats ambitiously wish to take the majority in the House. All hangs on about two dozen races. ... more
• Bureaucratic Incompetence Mon Apr 1
  Susan Stamper Brown
  Sadly, bureaucracy is a time-honored tradition in the United States government, but perhaps no greater bureaucratic juggernaut exists today than the Veteran’s Administration (VA) run by the Obama Administration. ... more
• Report Card on ObamaCare Sat Mar 30
  John C. Goodman
  Over the next 10 years health reform will impose upon us about $1 trillion in new taxes and it will take another $716 billion out of Medicare, imperiling access to care for the elderly and the disabled according to Medicare's Office of the Actuaries. ... more
• Obamacare: An Alarming Check-Up Fri Mar 29
  Ed Feulner
  Three years old, eh? Well, with any luck, you’ll leave here with a clean bill of … uh-oh. I can see one problem already. Have you seen these tax hikes? ... more
• Don't Give Up on Obamacare Yet, GOP Thu Mar 28
  David Harsanyi
  Conventional wisdom says that Republicans need a major attitude adjustment on cultural and social views in both substance and tone. That may very well be true. ... more
• Challenge to the House GOP: Kill the Medical Device Tax, Now Tue Mar 26
  Hugh Hewitt
  Of all the many awful features of the Affordable Care Act --"Obamacare"-- the medical device tax ("MDT") is the most obviously ruinous of a particular sector of the economy. ... more
• Unhappy Anniversary Tue Mar 26
  Cal Thomas
  Last week, politicians who helped craft the Affordable Care Act (ACA) celebrated in self-congratulatory style the third anniversary of that monstrosity which will soon extinguish health care as we've known it. ... more
• Obamacare’s Deceptive Conception Mon Mar 25
  Dan Holler
  As with most conceptions, Obamacare was conceived behind closed doors. Unlike most conceptions though, there were many hands involved and lots of money tossed around. And but for the Immaculate Conception, it could have a larger impact than any other. ... more
• A Health Care Solution Fri Mar 22
  Mona Charen
  The battle over health care reform is not over. Yes, the 2012 election ensured that the law would not be repealed and replaced in 2013. But when the American people are unhappy with a policy, they find a way to alter it. ... more
• Federal Direct Student Loans Up Nearly Fivefold Under Obama Wed Mar 20
  Terry Jeffrey
  Shortly before Congress enacted the Obamacare law in March 2010, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi famously said, "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." ... more
• Sooner Or Later Progressives Will Get Around To You Sun Mar 17
  Derek Hunter
  First, they came for the smokers. No one would argue smoking is good for you. But it’s legal; growing tobacco is even subsidized by the government. Yet, when governments started limiting the right of people to smoke in places public and private, non-smokers did nothing. ... more

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