The FDA, Avastin, and your life

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

Paul Hsieh, MD of Freedom and Individual Rights in Medicine writes: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is on the verge of taking the highly unusual step of “decertifying” the cancer drug Avastin that it had previously approved. In addition to sparking concerns that this is another step towards medical rationing, ...

“Don’t say the “the law will reduce costs and deficit.”

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

"Don't say the "the law will reduce costs and deficit." This is the last line on the final slide of a presentation given during a conference call organized by Families USA, a strong supporter of the health control legislation, HR 3590. Reports Ben Smith at Politico: Key White House allies are dramatically ...

Repeal ObamaCare by choking off its funding

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

Sally Pipes argues: With each passing week, it looks more and more like Republicans will retake control of Congress this fall. The latest Gallup poll gives the GOP a six-point edge. Rasmussen puts the Republican lead at seven points. Even if Republicans take back Congress, they won’t be ...

Advice to Ken Buck & other candidates: aim to repeal ObamaCare, not just revise

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Ken Buck has said that ObamaCare (HR 3590) is wrong.  In Human Events, Sally Pipes of the Pacific Research Institute makes the case that "lawmakers need to scrap the measure in its entirety" and that "incremental revisions just won’t do." Some excerpts: Incremental revisions just ...

Navigating health care bill’s small business tax credit

Monday, August 16th, 2010

Do you own a small business, or are you involved in its benefits administration?  The new health control bill (HR 3590) has a small business tax credit. But you get it if you satisfy certain criteria, which are a bit complicated to follow.  Representative Dave Camp (R-Mich) of the House ...

Prepare for countless government health care bureaucracies

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said "we have to pass the bill [HR 3590] so you can find out what is in it." Apparently passing the bill is not enough. We still don't know what's in it. As Politico reports: Don’t bother trying to count up the number of agencies, boards and ...

Health care bill will not contain costs

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

Of the health care bill (HR 3590), Peter Suderman writes: Just days after President Obama first took office, Peter Orszag, in his new role as director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) ... declared that “the single most important thing we can do to improve the long-term fiscal health ...

ObamaCare’s broken promises

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

Michael Tanner reviews a few of Barack Obama's promises about the health control legislation (HR 3590) in a New York Post article: "The bill doesn't come close to giving "everybody" access to coverage." "Even further from reality is the president's continued insistence that the new law is 'reducing costs.'" "Anyone who thinks that ...

It’s Not Health Care ‘Reform’; It’s Exploitation

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

Pajamas Media has published my article on health care exploitation. It begins: Scratch a health care “reformer” and you’re likely to find a health care exploiter. As ObamaCare’s provisions and taxes begin and resistance builds through lawsuits and state-level measures, it’s important to see the exploitative motives driving increased political control of your medical care. ...

Bad Medicine: The Real Costs & Consequences of ObamaCare

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

A new analysis of ObamaCare (HR 3590) from the Cato Institute: The length and complexity of the health care reform legislation, combined with a debate that often generated more heat than light, has led to massive confusion about the law's likely impact. A new white paper by Cato ...