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• Interstate Compacts for Health Insurance is Yet Another Sound Idea

  Posted March 19th, 2010 at 6:02pm in Health Care with 7 comments

  Throughout the debate over liberals’ health care proposals, it has become clear that  while Americans want health care reform, they reject the direction of the legislation that will be voted on in the House this weekend.  The current health care bill results in a government takeover of the health care system by imposing strict regulations [...] More

• The Aftermath of Obamacare: What America Will Look Like If The White House Gets Its Way

  Posted March 19th, 2010 at 3:27pm in Health Care, Ongoing Priorities with 51 comments

  America stands on the precipice of sweeping liberal health care reform that will radically reshape one-sixth of the U.S. economy, and a 153-page House bill is all that stands between us and a fundamentally changed America. What will that change look like? Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said, “we have to pass the bill so that you [...] 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

• Questions of Privilege: A Possible Countermove?

  Posted March 16th, 2010 at 5:49pm in Health Care with 27 comments

  According to the official site of the House Rules Committee, “questions of privilege” relate to “matters affecting the safety, dignity or integrity of the House, or the rights, reputation or conduct of a member acting as a representative.” House leaders are poised to use a procedural tactic of questionable constitutionality to move the single most consequential [...] More

• Karl Rove: Repealing Obamacare Will Be Easier If Congress Skirts Normal Process

  Posted March 16th, 2010 at 9:25am in Education, Enterprise and Free Markets, Entitlements, First Principles, Health Care, Ongoing Priorities with 13 comments

  “Deeming” and “reconciliation” are hardly household words, but for the next week Americans will come to know them as key procedural maneuvers that could push Obamacare across the finish line. But while they might deliver a bill to President Obama’s desk, they will also make it easier to repeal the measure, says former White House [...] More

• The Democrats’ Tangled Web

  Posted March 12th, 2010 at 3:00pm in Health Care with 6 comments

  In 2009, Democrats chose to proceed with a health-care bill under the regular order – that is, they sought to pass the legislation under normal House and Senate rules. They did not put together a budget reconciliation bill with health care in it, something that could have passed the Senate with a simple majority vote. [...] More

• A History of Insisting: Abortion and the House of Representatives

  Posted March 12th, 2010 at 2:30pm in Family and Religion, Health Care with 3 comments

  Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives appear to have abandoned their efforts to persuade a small band of pro-life members of their party to vote for a Senate bill that contains numerous provisions that subsidize elective abortion. Instead, the Democratic leaders are daring those pro-life members not to vote for the permissive Senate bill [...] More

• Congressional Micromanagement of Health Care: Messing Up The FEHBP

  Posted March 10th, 2010 at 2:00pm in Health Care with 1 comments

  While Congressional leaders are feverishly plotting to jam the hugely unpopular Senate health bill through the House of Representatives the moment Speaker Pelosi thinks she has the votes, House liberals are also tinkering around with the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program (FEHBP). This is the program that covers federal workers and retirees; it is a [...] More

• The President’s Health Plan Won’t Cut the Budget Deficit

  Posted March 5th, 2010 at 5:30pm in Health Care with 9 comments

  One of the central arguments President Barack Obama has made on behalf of the health care plan he wants Congress to approve in coming weeks is that it would begin to address the problem of rising costs and thus also begin to bring down future federal budget deficits. But will it? The president’s plan has not yet [...] More

• JCT Says Obama Health Plan is a $414 Billion Tax Hike

  Posted February 25th, 2010 at 3:43pm in Entitlements, Health Care with 4 comments

  President Obama keeps rolling out the tax hikes. In his budget released earlier this month, excluding the tax hikes he assumed to pay for health care, he called for $1.3 trillion in higher taxes over the next decade. Now in his recently released health reform plan, he calls for even more tax increases. Today, the [...] More