Health Care on Townhall
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Terry JeffreyShortly 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
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Derek HunterFirst, 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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Bait and Switch Sat Mar 16John C. GoodmanIt's hard to believe almost any budget numbers coming out of Washington, D.C., these days. The reason? The Obama administration is cooking the books. ... more
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'No Holds Barred' Obama Questions? Fri Mar 15Brent BozellABC News really knows how to cause a coffee spit-take. All you have to do is introduce George Stephanopoulos talking to President Obama and put these hyperbolic words on screen: "No Holds Barred." ... more
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MD to UN: Shame on You Thu Mar 14Ashley HerzogOn Tuesday, Dr. Miriam Grossman had a message for the United Nations: Shame on you. ... more
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Medicare: Did You Really Pay For That? Tue Mar 12Mark W. HendricksonLast summer, Barack Obama riled a lot of entrepreneurs when he got carried away at a campaign event and told any American who had built up a successful enterprise, “you didn’t build that.” ... more
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Robert Knightn 1919, back when the United States was a constitutional republic, Congress passed a child labor law imposing a 10 percent excise tax on companies that violated it. A North Carolina furniture maker challenged the law and won. ... more
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A Drug Deal That’s Bad for Consumers Fri Mar 8Devon HerrickAs drug coverage has become more common, special interests (mainly pharmacy trade groups) are pressuring lawmakers to impose self-serving regulations on health insurance drug plans. ... more
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Don't Wait 'til It's Too Late to Decide Wed Mar 6Ken ConnorHealth care is about so much more than dollars and cents. In the end, we are talking about human life and the dignity accorded it by our society. If we believe, as our Declaration of Independence asserts, that all men possess inherent dignity as given to them by God, then we cannot embrace a system of health care that assigns life worth based on arbitrary criteria like age, size, location, cognitive ability or any other generic factor. ... more
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It's 'I Told You So' on Obamacare Wed Mar 6Jonah GoldbergIt turns out that Obamacare actually makes self-insurance less of a gamble because you can always throw workers on public exchanges without penalty. ... more
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Star ParkerNew Jersey Governor Chris Christie has become the eighth Republican governor to agree to expand Medicaid coverage in his state under the provisions of Obamacare. ... more
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Matt Barber“But Republican governors are folding like cheap lawn chairs,” you say. “And political eunuchs in the GOP establishment are bowing to Obama like he bows to foreign dictators. Any hope of repeal is long dead, and besides, Chief Justice John Roberts put the final nail in the judicial coffin last summer, didn’t he? Any chance of killing the Obamacare zombie is gone, right?” ... more
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Daniel Doherty
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Governor Scott to Voters: Never Mind Wed Feb 27Cal ThomasGov. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) was one of those tea party stars whom voters believed had the courage of his convictions when he promised, as recently as last summer, to block The Affordable Care Act in his state. ... more
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Washington, D.C.Gov. Christie announces expansion of Medicaid in budget speech ... more
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Michael F. CannonWhen a poll only asks voters about benefits, the results are meaningless. Yet to my knowledge, JMI’s poll is so far the only poll that has asked voters about both costs and benefits. ... more
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Rick Scott’s ObamaCare Flip-Flop Fri Feb 22Michael F. CannonThere is speculation that Scott made a deal with the Obama administration: he would drop his opposition to the Medicaid expansion in exchange for HHS approving Florida’s plan to put its Medicaid enrollees in managed care plans. ... more
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Donald LambroBrace yourselves for higher medical insurance costs that will hit young and old alike as a result of President Obama's nationalized health-care mandates. ... more
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So, Who Really Does Care? Wed Feb 20Susan Stamper BrownIf there's one thing I've learned, there's no shortage of well-meaning people who want the world to be a better place. But, without the willingness to roll up your sleeves and be part of the solution, you run the risk of making the situation worse. ... more
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God Bless You, Sen. Feinstein Sun Feb 17Debra J. SaundersSen. Dianne Feinstein began her war on allergy and cold sufferers in 2005. ... more
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A Message to Obama, Served Cold Wed Feb 13Jonah GoldbergIn an earlier era, Dr. Benjamin Carson's speech before the National Prayer Breakfast last week would have been a really big deal rather than mere fodder for a brief squall on Twitter and cable news. ... more
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WSJ: “Ben Carson for President!” Sun Feb 10Daniel Doherty
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Anna HigginsThe Obama administration and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have announced yet another proposal to “accommodate” religious freedom under the HHS contraception mandate. If nothing else, this appears to be a concession that last year’s much-touted “accommodation” was insufficient. ... more
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Ken Connor"Your freedom is likely to be someone else's harm." So says bioethicist Daniel Callahan of the Hastings Center, responding to the recent controversy over provisions in Obamacare that penalize smokers. ... more
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Whatever Happened to Free Obamacare? Mon Feb 4Rachel AlexanderThe IRS issued regulations last week announcing that the cheapest insurance plan under Obamacare will cost a family of five $20,000 per year by 2016. That estimate is based on choosing the plan offering the least benefits, the bronze plan. ... more
