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• Could Trillion Dollar Debt Kill Obama Health Care Reform?

  Posted February 9th, 2010 at 5:00pm in Health Care with 0 comments

  It seems the President’s spending habits have finally caught up with him, threatening to kill a government overhaul of health care. Though President Obama and congressional Democrats continue to insist that health care reform is on the horizon, the increasing national concern over the rising public debt presents an undeniable obstacle. James Capretta, a Fellow [...] More

• The Canadian Patients’ Remedy for Health Care: Go to America!

  Posted February 9th, 2010 at 3:00pm in Health Care, Ongoing Priorities with 0 comments

  One common assertion among the left is that other industrialized nations, such as Canada, achieved great success in health care within their collectivist framework. This, then, begs the question: why is the head of an east coast Canadian province coming to the United States for medical treatment? Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams is seeking heart surgery in [...] More

• Obama’s Health-Care Summit – Gimmick or Negotiation?

  Posted February 9th, 2010 at 2:00pm in Health Care with 8 comments

  On February 25th, the White House has proposed a bipartisan, half-day televised summit on health care. It is unclear as to whether this is a publicity stunt by the Obama Administration or a good faith effort to negotiate with Republicans to come up with a bipartisan health care reform bill. The Washington Post [...] More

• Morning Bell: A Six-Hour Infomercial Can’t Save Obamacare

  Posted February 8th, 2010 at 9:46am in Health Care with 79 comments

  Right before the Super Bowl, President Barack Obama spoke about health care reform with CBS News’ Katie Couric: “I want to come back and have a large meeting, Republicans and Democrats, to go through systematically all the best ideas that are out there and move it forward.” According to aides, the President envisions a half-day meeting [...] More

• Has Obamacare Already Won? Existing Government Programs to Take Over Health Care by 2012

  Posted February 4th, 2010 at 5:21pm in Health Care with 3 comments

  For the past several months, Washington has exhausted every possible method to pass a health care bill designed to increase government’s control over health care.  They haven’t been successful yet, but that may not matter: even without Obamacare, government health spending is set to increase far faster than private health expenditures, surpassing the private sector [...] More

• The Public Option Threat Still Buried in the Senate Bill

  Posted February 4th, 2010 at 3:45pm in Health Care with 1 comments

  Most Americans now believe that major health care legislation will not pass this year. But as Heritage Vice President Stuart Butler explains in The New England Journal Medicine one seemingly minor proposal in the Senate health care bill could end up having huge repercussions for our entire health care system: The Senate legislation contains strong [...] More

• Big Tort Means Big Problems for US Health Care

  Posted February 4th, 2010 at 12:45pm in Health Care with 0 comments

  America is the land of litigation. A tort lawyer’s paradise. In America, you can sue anyone for just about anything. This has affected the cost of America’s health care, and has demoralized the medical profession. In fact, abusive tort litigation has added billions of dollars to health care costs, both directly, through [...] More

• Fighting the Nuclear Option

  Posted February 3rd, 2010 at 6:00pm in Health Care with 14 comments

  With the victory of Senator-elect Scott Brown (R-MA), Democrats are turning to a secret “Nuclear Option” to push ObamaCare through the Senate and avoid a Republican filibuster. Now it appears, though, that Republicans have a procedural tactic of their own to fight back. The Hill reports today that “Republicans say they have found a loophole in [...] More

• Budget 2011: Another Taxpayer-Funded Medicaid Bailout

  Posted February 3rd, 2010 at 11:56am in Health Care with 3 comments

  As President Obama’s recently-released budget for 2011 reveals, with or without a health care reform bill, Medicaid stands to receive a big, taxpayer-funded bailout.  Again.  The 2011 Budget includes $25 billion in additional funding for state Medicaid programs as an extension of the bailout that was included in the 2009 economic stimulus bill. As Heritage analysts [...] More

• The States Fight Back: Virginia Rejects Obamacare’s Individual Mandates

  Posted February 2nd, 2010 at 2:33pm in Health Care with 15 comments

  Yesterday the U.S. Constitution and federalism won a key battle. The Virginia Senate, which has a Democrat Majority, passed a bill prohibiting a requirement for Virginians to purchase health-care insurance. Five Democrats from swing districts joined all of the Senate Republicans in voting in favor of the measure. And with a Republican State House [...] More