Category Archives: Health Care

Rove: Steaming Toward the ObamaCare ‘Train Wreck’

Posted on April 18th, 2013

 The implementation of this unpopular law is a story of missed deadlines and general bungling. By KARL ROVE   In congressional testimony last week, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius blamed Republican governors for her department’s failure to create a “model exchange” where consumers could shop for health-insurance coverage in states that don’t set [...]

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Good News: Delay Of ObamaCare’s Launch More Likely

Posted on February 17th, 2013

Health Care: Now that ObamaCare appears unstoppable, the question is can it be delayed? Thanks to bureaucratic bumbling combined with the law’s massive complexity, delay appears to be increasingly inevitable. On Thursday, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus told HHS to cough up details on how it plans to get ObamaCare “exchanges” ready in time [...]

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Krugman: Death Panels and Middle-Class Tax Hikes Ahead

Posted on February 8th, 2013

Big Government: We almost never agree with President Obama’s favorite economist Paul Krugman, but he recently spoke the truth about where Obama’s policies are taking the country. It should scare anyone with a pulse. Krugman, after speaking at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington, D.C., was asked about the debt crisis. After arguing [...]

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Arrogance and Overreach

Posted on January 24th, 2013

By: Erick Erickson Barack Obama was able to get Obamacare passed largely because he had a group of Democrats in Congress who were not running for re-election and thus had no fear of the voters. They overreached and the Democrats were swept out to the minority in the House of Representatives. In fact, the voters [...]

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4 more years will cost us dearly

Posted on January 21st, 2013

  By: Holly Robichaud / Boston Herald Today, President Obama will celebrate his inauguration and another four-year term in office. So far, it has been a long, bumpy road, where the new norm is that our nation leads from behind, our government never wastes a crisis, gas is well above $3 per gallon and people [...]

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Medical companies brace for ‘devastating’ ObamaCare tax, prepare for layoffs

Posted on December 14th, 2012

By Judson Berger Andre DiMino has been running medical device company ADM Tronics since his father, who founded the decades-old firm, died in 2001. He’s never laid off anybody. “These people are like family with us,” he said. The boss might not be able to hold out much longer. Come Jan. 1, an ObamaCare-tied tax [...]

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Don’t Make an Exchange

Posted on December 11th, 2012

By: The Editors   National Review The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was a milestone in many ways, marking previously uncharted territory in federal arrogance and overreach. As health-insurance policy goes, it promises to prove catastrophic, but its constitutional implications are more worrisome still in that it is among the most insidious attempts yet to reduce the [...]

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New Taxes to Take Effect to Fund Health Care Law

Posted on December 10th, 2012

  By ROBERT PEAR WASHINGTON — For more than a year, politicians have been fighting over whether to raise taxes on high-income people. They rarely mention that affluent Americans will soon be hit with new taxes adopted as part of the 2010 health care law. The new levies, which take effect in January, include an [...]

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Oklahoma wants no part of ObamaCare

Posted on November 21st, 2012

Okla. Gov. Mary Fallin explains why she will refuse to carry out two key elements of President Obama’s health care reform law <span style=”line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;” id=”mce_1_end” data-mce-type=”bookmark” data-mce-style=”overflow:hidden;line-height:0px”></span>Watch the latest video at <a href=”http://video.foxnews.com”>video.foxnews.com</a>   Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Tell a friend

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The Party’s Problem

Posted on November 14th, 2012

From the forthcoming issue of NATIONAL REVIEW     The first thing conservatives should understand about the electoral catastrophe that just befell us — and it was a catastrophe — is that any explanation of it that centers on Mitt Romney is mistaken.   Much of the discussion of the race among conservatives has made [...]

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