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• Obamacare Will Break the Bank, Not Cut the Deficit

  Posted March 18th, 2010 at 5:43pm in Health Care with 10 comments

  The White House and its congressional allies are trying to suggest that the latest Congressional Budget Office (CBO) cost estimate proves that their health-care plan is fiscally responsible. But, in fact, the latest CBO projections confirm — again — that the President’s health plan would pile more another unfinanced entitlement program on top of the unaffordable [...] More

• Health Care Fight Is The True March Madness

  Posted March 18th, 2010 at 5:38pm in Health Care with 6 comments

  The public doesn’t trust Washington politicians—and those politicians don’t trust each other. Those two truths could doom President Obama’s health care bill even if it weren’t an unaffordable behemoth. The final health debate merges multiple story lines into one, just as March Madness does for an assortment of college basketball teams. Some of these [...] More

• Obamacare’s Biggest Losers

  Posted March 18th, 2010 at 4:30pm in Health Care with 5 comments

  A recent study by the Urban Institute, a prominent liberal think tank, lists “the biggest losers” should congressional health care legislation fail to become law.  Interestingly enough, this is oddly similar to an earlier Heritage Foundation assessment of the “biggest losers”—if the liberal bills  do become law.  Here, we outline how Urban’s biggest losers would [...] More

• Slaughter Rule Not Defended by President

  Posted March 18th, 2010 at 2:07pm in Health Care with 3 comments

  Yesterday FOX News Special Report interviewed President Barack Obama about the process for passing the President’s controversial and unpopular health care proposal.  Fox’s Bret Baier asked some pointed questions to see if the President supported or would even talk about the controversial “Slaughter Rule” being considered by the House to pass Obamacare. The President [...] More

• Six Ways the Senate Health Care Bill Raises Health Care Costs, Kills Jobs, and Weakens the Economy

  Posted March 18th, 2010 at 1:55pm in Health Care with 23 comments

  On the eve of the House of Representatives push to jam through the misguided and highly unpopular Senate health care bill, , the President continues to try and convince the American people that the health care bill would reduce cost while showing his commitment to creating jobs and improving the economy. The raw facts make [...] More

• Praising the Senate Health Bill: Worldly Wisdom or Nunsense?

  Posted March 18th, 2010 at 1:30pm in Health Care with 1 comments

  As the beneficiary of 16 years of Catholic education, eight of them under the tutelage of the Sisters of Charity in Cincinnati, I am inclined by habit to nod in swift concurrence whenever the good sisters speak. Not today. A letter released yesterday by 60 leaders of Catholic women’s religious orders argues that the Senate-passed [...] More

• Morning Bell: What the Senate Bill Would Do To America

  Posted March 18th, 2010 at 9:19am in Health Care with 58 comments

  Another day, another no-show for the Obamacare reconciliation bill. House Democrats were quick to shift blame to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) with Rep. Robert Andrews telling The Hill that the delay “has been much more technical than substantive. … It’s not like what tax has to go or what spending has to go.” Which [...] More

• The Senate Health Bill: Ordinary Americans Have Been Warned

  Posted March 17th, 2010 at 6:00pm in Health Care with 12 comments

  As the House of Representatives prepares for a final round of debate on the health care legislation, ordinary Americans must grasp the huge impact on the future of the country. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pulling out all the stops to get the 216 votes needed to pass the Senate health bill, H.R. 3590 (PDF). [...] More

• Forget Doctors’ Support for the Health Care Bill

  Posted March 17th, 2010 at 5:00pm in Health Care with 12 comments

  Earlier this month, President Obama held a press conference at the White House with white coated physicians in his push for a government overhaul of the nation’s health care system. Though the presence of physicians in support of the Democrats’ plans for health care “reform” created the illusion that the medical profession is in [...] More

• Health Coverage for All Americans? Not Under the Senate Health Bill

  Posted March 17th, 2010 at 4:30pm in Health Care with 4 comments

  As Congressional leaders continue to search for ways to pass the Senate health bill in the House later this week, Americans continue to be subjected to dubious rhetoric surrounding the bill’s provisions.  The Senate bill’s supporters claim that their legislation must be made law, no matter the cost, in order to achieve universal coverage in [...] More