Too Bad - Dems can't blame Bush for Obam


"While the trifecta of stimulus/bailouts/ObamaCare is what is mostly touted as the explanation for the waning Democratic political fortunes, ObamaCare is the mother-lode of straws that broke the camel's back and crushed it. Democrats know this, but can't acknowledge it. Why? Because they can't blame ObamaCare on George W. Bush. And that leaves them with nothing, and nowhere to hide."

Docs4PatientCare


"ObamaCare will bring major cost increases, rising insurance premiums, higher taxes, a decline in new medical techniques, a fall-off in the development of miracle drugs as well as rationing by government panels and by bureaucrats like passionate rationing advocate Donald Berwick that will force delays of months or sometimes years for hospitalization or surgery."

Ready To Disrupt Seniors’ Drug Coverage


"...despite all the promises, a new report from Avalere Health shows that, in addition to the upheaval caused by Obamacare, the Medicare bureaucracy is taking administrative steps to change the Medicare drug program that will have adverse impact on seniors’ choices. Millions of seniors will have to switch their prescription drug plans due to changes within Medicare. Avalere is a private research firm founded by a former budget official from the Clinton Administration."

Dear Patients: Vote to Repeal ObamaCare


"Don't believe Democrats who promise to fix the bill once they're re-elected."

Florida Voters Denied Chance to Challenge ObamaCare


"In a 5-2 vote, the court upheld a lower court decision to remove the proposed state constitutional amendment from Florida's Nov. 2 ballot, saying the summary language was "misleading." The justices also struck down two other amendments dealing with redistricting and property tax relief."

Obama Deploys $5 Billion to Fund Early Retiree Health


"The program, created with the health overhaul signed by President Barack Obama in March, will pay 80 percent of health insurance costs, up to $90,000 a year, for each early retiree."

The Likelihood of Repealing ObamaCare


"If “the Republicans regain only the House in the upcoming election…the estimated likelihood of at [least] some repeal during the 112th Congress is 52 percent.”

"If “Republicans regain both chambers in the upcoming midterm…the estimated likelihood of at [least] some repeal is 59 percent.”

"If “Republicans regain unified control of government in 2012…the estimated likelihood of some repeal in the 113th Congress is 69 percent.”

Cash-Poor Local Governments Ditching Public Hospitals


"Faced with mounting debt and looming costs from the new federal health-care law, many local governments are leaving the hospital business, shedding public facilities that can be the caregiver of last resort."

GOP House Whip Pledges to Repeal ObamaCare

Crist says he 'misspoke' on healthcare


"Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (I) is walking back comments he made in an interview earlier today about the recently enacted healthcare law. "

FDA: Obamacare’s Calorie-Count Mandate Now In Effect—But Not Enforcable


"A mandate buried in the health-care bill President Barack Obama signed in March is now confounding not only the vending-machine operators who are supposed to follow it but also the federal regulators who are supposed to enforce it."

Healthcare law backers plan counteroffensive


"Since the bill passed in March, $23.3 million has been spent on ads attacking the law, compared with $6.3 million supporting the legislation, Tracey said. About a third of the opposition ads have used the phrase "Obamacare."

If You Like Your Health Care Plan, You Can Start Beating Your Head Against the Wall Now


"More than 3 million seniors may have to switch their Medicare prescription plan next year, even if they're perfectly happy with it, thanks to an attempt by the government to simplify their lives."

CBO gives us the complete picture five months late


"Last week CBO released their annual summer baseline update. On page 6 (page 24 of the PDF) is a box titled “The Effects of Major Health Care Legislation on CBO’s Baseline.” It provides an important new data point that was absent when the legislation was being debated."

Small Business CEOs Reveal Why They're Not Hiring:


"Economic Contraction, Obama, And Healthcare."

US Census Counted Everyone as Citizens - De Facto "immigration reform"


"The $14.5 billion US Census asked your national origin. But it didn't ask if you were a US citizen. An estimated 20 million illegal immigrants were counted as citizens."

Virginia Attorney General Offers Legal Opinion That Could Expand State Oversight of Abortion Clinics


"The opinion, which is an evaluation of existing law and court decision, concludes that the "the commonwealth has the authority to regulate (abortion clinics) so long as the regulations adhere to constitutional limitations," Brian Gottstein, Cuccinelli's director of communications, told Fox News."

THOMAS SOWELL: Knowing Facts From Fables In Life And Death


"There is so much political spin, and so many numbers games being played, when it comes to medical care, that we have to go back to square one and the simplest common sense in order to get some rational idea of what government-run medical care means." In particular, we need to examine the claim that the government can "bring down the cost of medical care."

As many as two people will begin receiving coverage Monday under new Obamacare in NJ


"NJ Protect plans are available to those who have been without insurance for at least six months and submit evidence of pre-existing health conditions."

ObamaCare's Tax on Taxes


"The latest gambit to punish for-profit health insurers."

Hospitals vs. ObamaCare: Care to Guess Who's in the Middle?


"For those who knew at the outset that ObamaCare was a deliberate means to curtail American health care, drive costs up, and destroy the best health care system in the world, the headline in the Modern Healthcare supplement of August 9, 2010 will come as no surprise. "Sick, Sicker, Sickest: Hospitals say their Medicare patients are sicker and more costly to treat than ever before. But the government isn't buying it."

Who's ObamaCare's Daddy?


"Now even liberals are denying paternity."

Has ObamaCare’s Unpopularity Caused ‘Abject Panic at the White House’?


"Key White House allies are dramatically shifting their attempts to defend health care legislation, abandoning claims that it will reduce costs and deficit, and instead stressing a promise to “improve it.”

Liberal Health Care Activists Advised to Avoid Saying That ObamaCare Reduces Costs and Deficit


"Are liberals backing down from core arguments about cost and deficit reductions in the new health care law? A leaked Powerpoint presentation put together by an alliance of prominent liberal politicians indicate that prominent liberal health care activists are moving away from messaging that focuses on health care costs and deficit reduction."

Economy Led to Cuts in Use of Health Care


"The economic crisis in the United States has reduced the use of routine medical care, and the cutbacks here are much deeper than in countries with universal health care systems, researchers say in a new report."

Florida Supreme Court to Weigh Ballot Measure Banning ObamaCare's Insurance Mandate


"The Florida Supreme Court will consider this week whether to restore Proposition C, a ballot measure that would prohibit the government from requiring people to have health insurance or from penalizing them for not having it, a key provision of President Obama's health care law."

60% Favor Repeal of Health Care Law, 50% Say Repeal Would Benefit


"Support for repeal of the health care reform bill is at its highest level in over a month, while the number of voters who believe repeal will be good for the economy has reached a new high. "

Sarah Palin was right - There come the DEATH PANELS!


"For the first time in history, an FDA-approved anti-cancer therapy may not be covered by Medicare."

Surprise! NJ Planned Parenthood “improperly” billed Medicaid, costing tax payers millions


"Marie Tasy, the executive director of New Jersey Right to Life, released three reports by the US inspector general from 2007-2008, ordering NJ’s Department of Human Services to return almost $3 million in prescription drug and medical care payments that were erroneously billed as “family planning services.”

The 'Right to Health Care' Can Be the Right to No Care


"If you read British newspapers, you know their universal health care system is cutting more and more services. There, everyone's right to health care is becoming the right to no care. Do we want that in the USA?"

The Anti-Obama Democrats


"Democrats in deep-red states who voted against health reform and higher spending may yet survive the midterm."

RNC passes resolution calling for repeal of Obamacare

Goldwater Institute Files Challenge to ObamaCare:


"The Goldwater Institute in Arizona has filed a legal challenge to ObamaCare. "

U.S. Is Bankrupt and We Don't Even Know It


"Let’s get real. The U.S. is bankrupt. Neither spending more nor taxing less will help the country pay its bills. What it can and must do is radically simplify its tax, health-care, retirement and financial systems, each of which is a complete mess. But this is the good news. It means they can each be redesigned to achieve their legitimate purposes at much lower cost and, in the process, revitalize the economy."

Harry Reid Reads Health Care Bill, Decides He Doesn’t Like It Any More


"In a July 21 letter to U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Service Kathleen Sebelius, the Senate Majority Leader complains that ObamaCare’s cuts to Medicare will “result in a net reduction in payment to Nevada’s hospitals when they are unable to absorb such a cut.” Furthermore, he questions the method used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to calculate the payments to hospitals, and is “very concerned about potential effects on beneficiary access if this regulation is finalized without adjustment.”

Is Congress Ashamed Of Its Record?


"Election '10: Earlier in the year, congressional Democrats were gushing about their historic legislative achievements. But if they've done such great things for the country, why aren't they campaigning on them?"

Perry seeks border promise from Obama

Medicare’s chief actuary rejects rosy projections from CMS


"Last week, the Obama administration used the Medicare Trustees Report to argue that its ObamaCare bill had created new life for the troubled entitlement. The economics site E21 took a closer look at the report and discovered that it contained an unprecedented dissent — from Medicare’s own chief actuary. The memo claimed that the estimates used by the White House and its allies underestimated costs by a whopping 68% and could not possibly be seen as a good-faith projection of the program’s future:"

Colorado Gives Illegal Immigrants Unemployment Benefits


"Colorado pays illegal immigrants unemployment insurance because a director at the state agency that cuts the checks eliminated a key tool designed to prevent payments from going to unqualified residents."

How is Medicare doing?


"Administration officials can always be counted on to praise President Obama's health care law. But Rick Foster, the chief actuary of Medicare, offers an unvarnished assessment of how the new law affects 47 million Medicare recipients, as well as the federal deficit..."

Why ObamaCare has gaping holes


"Wait until the public discovers the government is now literally determining what qualifies as “health care” in America. That isn’t a typo. ObamaCare mandates that insurers spend a certain percentage of premium dollars on benefits, but Democrats never got around to writing the fine print of what counts as a benefit. So a handful of regulators are now choosing among the tens of thousands of services that doctors, hospitals and insurers offer. Few other government decisions will do more to shape tomorrow’s health market, or what’s left of it."

Obamacare’s Other Public Option


"The American people made it clear during the recent health care debate that they were leery of a public option. But included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) passed by Congress is the CLASS Act, a public option of a different sort: a government-run long-term care entitlement."

Senate Approves $600M for Border Security