[Post updated in response to Max's comment. Thanks!]
The San Francisco Examiner reports:
Remember when Obama and congressional Democrats made a big show of dropping the public option government insurance program that was supposedly going to give private insurers competition and drive rates down? The truth is the public ...
The health control legislation known as ObamaCare (HR 3590) has an employer mandate provision for those who hire more than 50 people, as I've written before, this is a terrible idea. Diana Furchtgott-Roth of the Manhatten Institute explains how the employer mandate harms low-skilled and part-time workers:
...come 2014, the ...
Will the health control legislation (HR 3590) encourage large firms to stop offering medical insurance? From CNNMoney.com (Fortune):
Internal documents recently reviewed by Fortune, originally requested by Congress, show what the bill's critics predicted, and what its champions dreaded: many large companies are examining a course that was ...
In March Michael Cannon at Cato delivered a half-hour speech the policy implications of ObamaCare (HR 3590) and the best ways to fight it. In this post I want to highlight a two-minute segment (starts at 27:30) what he says about Republicans:
[audio:http://www.patientpowernow.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/cannon-republicans-health-care.mp3]Cannon concludes:
Republicans' objections to the substance of the Obama ...
The Heritage Foundation has a useful graphic showing the tax increases associated with ObamaCare, HR 3590, the so-called "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act." It's from a new report titled Obamacare: Impact on Taxpayers. Here's the abstract:
The hodgepodge of new taxes that have already or will soon take effect ...
Writes Paul Hsieh, MD in the Denver Post:
... But no one should be surprised that under government-controlled health insurance, medical coverage decisions will be based on political considerations. Rather, the recent wrangling over abortion will be a mere preview of special-interest battles to come as health ...
The New York Post reports:
Good old Joe Biden, introducing Barack Obama at the health-care bill-signing lollapalooza in Washington yesterday, leaned over and whispered into the presidential ear (and a nearby open mike): "This is a big f---ing deal."
Sure was -- though not personally to Veep Potty-Mouth, ...
The Denver Post reports:
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers said Monday that he was joining with attorneys general from at least 11 states who are mounting a legal challenge to the health care overhaul [sic] that Congress passed Sunday. ...
One of the powers delegated to the federal government ...
From David Hogberg in Investors Business Daily:
...It is worthwhile to take a comprehensive look at the freedoms we will lose [with health "reform" passed].
Of course, the overhaul is supposed to provide us with security. But it will result in skyrocketing insurance costs and physicians ...
